Antietam: The Day the War Learned Its Cost
I have stood on many fields where men learned, too late, that courage does not soften arithmetic. Antietam was one […]
19th Century Wars, Doctrine & Strategy
19th Century Wars
This category explores warfare in an age of transition — when mass armies, industrial production, and emerging technologies began to outpace the doctrines that governed them. It was a century where tradition collided with innovation, and where the scale and cost of war expanded faster than its understanding.
19th Century Wars examines conflicts shaped by railroads, rifled weapons, nationalism, and empire, tracing how these forces transformed battlefields and foreshadowed the mechanized wars to come.