The reason was because Lee didn't go to school under Mahan

Mahan was at West Point only a year before he left and went to Europe

he hadnt formed his theory of total war yet

Lee Graduated under the old system

both Stonewall and Sherman studied under Mahan

and adopted the modern technique

Actually Total War wasnt Modern at all, it was merely a return to Pre-Christian Warfare. Since Augustine, battle had been fought according to rules

except when fighting infidels when 2 Christian peoples fought they had to fight for proper reasons and conduct the battle in such a way not to be brutal

@MatthewHeimbach Have you studied any on that?

Being in the Orthodox Communion im sure you studied a bit on that

Augustines philosophy about war

Aye, Just War Doctrine

I knew it

you knew what I was getitng at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

The War For Southern Independence was truly in my mind the last war that began under Just War Theory and ended in modern war

I read Lee's memoirs and although it never mentions it in there, im about 99% sure he ascribed to just war theory

Jackson did not

@katherine would love this conversation, she took a class that revolved around the civil war, and how basically the south dindu nuffin

Stonewall was a Presbyterian Calvinist not too different from the Yankee Puritans in their belief on Dominion and destruction

Calvinists believed the Elect could deal with the sinners any way they wanted basically

"the south will rise again" started because lincoln basically said fuck them, let them rebuild by themselves, leaving the women to clean the battle fields of decaying bodies and such

Stonewall boiled his war belief down in that basic way, he saw the South as the Elect of God and the North as Sinners who needed to be destroyed

it was like the Old Testament Wars of Joshua also

the Elect can put the entire land under the Ban and Kill everything on it

After Augustine the only time Christians could do savage all out war, was against infidels and pagans

like Muslims go ahead and burn their babies and pregnant women who cares

Pagans Jews ditto

@MatthewHeimbach Have you read any about the Russo-Turkish War and how Britian sided with Islam to keep the Tsar from taking Constantinoople

Did someone say Stonewall?

Britain also did it again when it betrayed Greece after WWI

Britain and the USA after WWI supposedly at first supported Greece in their war to seize Anatolia

then they switched sides and sided with Ataturk and left millions of Christians to die

Makes me so sick to think of this Freemasonic Whore USA telling everyone she's Christian then doing everything to destroy the lives of Christians worldwide

it sickens me

this is sad to learn but I'm glad you shared...

our country has been literally fuked from nearly inception in 1775 😦

I know

it hurt me when I learned it all

bad

i still cannot say this to family members or ill get hit in the jaw