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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 4417052, member: 76863&quot;]Not necessarily though the deck is always stacked against succession but the Revolutionary war is just one of many examples that it is possible.&nbsp; The South didn&#039;t get stomped right off the bat or anything and many nations would have been happy to have seen the USA weaken and split in two if they felt the South was close to victory, whether or not that would have lead to wide spread support we will never know.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Strategically there was a path to victory for them, their margin of error was just much less than the Norths and they exceeded their limit and lost.&nbsp; Given the resource/population differences you could do a whole PHD on the offensive strategy the South employed early and the role that played in the outcome. </p><p><br /></p><p>Being strangled to death was just one part of it, Sherman burning everything in his path was another (we would call that a war crime today and court-martial anyone doing it), the north was also counterfeiting Confederate money and so on.&nbsp; The north had a lot of advantages and used them fighting the war on many fronts which was smart.&nbsp; The blockades starving them off were really the nail in the coffin for it, but there were a number of points in the war early on where you could say if this had gone differently or they used a different strategy we may have seen a different outcome[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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