Thread 64256912

>Fight a battle
>Go left
>Repeat
>Win

fun fact, Ulysses Grant excelled in mathematics and equestrian; his record in the latter at West Point for the high jump stood for a quarter century.

>>64256933
The record belongs more to the horse, no?

>>64256936
Shut up

This is also how all of the Soviet counteroffensives in 1944-45 worked as well so clearly he was on to something

>>64256912 (OP)
He learned at Vickburg that marching all the way around the enemy was a pain in the ass and ultimately a waste of time, flank to the left was all you need to win a war of attrition where you have a vast advantage in industrial capacity.

>>64257686
>all you need to win a war of attrition where you have a vast advantage in industrial capacity.
This YES

the rest: No.

A baboon could have won the war for the North. All they needed was someone who would unashamedly attack.

>>64256933
Didn’t he get a ticket for speeding on his horse in DC? First president to do so or something

HE WOULDN'T GO LEFT. HE WOULD GO RIGHT.

>>64256912 (OP)
i think you're trying to summarize all of military strategy in history. yeah. and it does work. because shit happens in between fighting a battle and going left. and when you do eventually decide to turn left everyone has forgotten about how the big chess pieces move. so yes. it would be a retardedly simple move until you find a fight and just move your units 200 feet to the left.

what. cmon. you didnt think military strategist were geniuses, did you?

>>64257695
He has a line about how he got into horses not because he was particularly interested in horses but because in politics, you either have a weird autistic special interest/hobby or the press will choose one for you.

But I can believe man liked going fast too.

>>64256912 (OP)
Opps wrong picture

>US Grant
>Unconditional Surrender Grant
>Uncle Sam Grant
Most based US president name yet

>>64258040
Ulysses is also pretty excellent
Also genuinely loved his wife is pretty nice too

>>64256912 (OP)
>fight a battle
>go left
>enemy went the same way
>repeat
>enemy went the same way
>repeat
>reach coastline
>enemy went the same way
>oh god oh fuck oh fuck

>>64257912
So....would Ulysses S. Grant like Taiki Shuttle? (we should also mention he was very revered in Japan after his presidency and loved that country a lot)

>>64258415
He tried it against an enemy who had superior manpower and industrial capacities.

>>64256912 (OP)
>presents an insane plan where if you give him 20k men he can end the war, for the 4th time this year

>>64258321
>>64258040

Missed opportunity to switch to The Ulysses States of America

Just go both ways.

>>64256912 (OP)
it's not like you can do complex maneuver tactics when you rely on fast riders, bugles, drums and shouting to convey messages. war was figured out thousands of years ago, understand how an army would move based off it's state of supply and the territories they have to move in, with the equipment they need to carry, then how confident your men are, you understand basically everything on a high command level. the tactics boil down to either
>move left/right
or if you're hannibal
>keep the guys on the sides still while moving the center guys back slowly
you can only do more complex maneuvers with enough radios and then microsoft excel.

>>64256912 (OP)
he out-generaled Lee

>>64256912 (OP)
Sounds like NASCAR

>>64256912 (OP)
>has a schizophrenic meltdown
>calls you a double nigger
>lectures you for hours about classical liberalism and social contract theory

>>64262223
>annihilates the confederate army of tennessee
>takes atlanta
>takes savannah
>takes charleston
>takes columbia

Shit, Sherman won the war on his own

>>64262306
the power of being a sexless, autistic schitzo is truly unmatched. If the Union had a dozen /tv/ posters sent back in time they would have won the war at Bull Run.

>>64262349
I don't think a defeat at Bull Run would have immediately ended the Confederacy but it would have seriously shook them and put them on a much more defensive position from the outset which probably ends the war two years sooner. Lee understood it correctly, he needed to strike into the Union and make it appear too costly to the average citizen to carry on the war. If you're in open rebellion you'll fight to your front porch but if you're not the idea of letting someone that can fuck up your town/city simply because the government won't leave them alone showing up changes the equation a bit. Also would have helped convince France and England the south had an actual shot and it wasn't just going to be a slow bloody death.

>>64257912
He was known in his hometown as a kid to be a good horse trainer

>>64256936
An horse isn't a athlete.