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What might have been the advantage for the Confederacy if they had used an almost exclusive guerrilla type of war against the Union?
ChuckSiata
In my opinion the advantage would have been very little one if no one at all, but a self-defeating one.
The reasons:
1 - It would have turned against the South the "sympathy" of France and Great Britain, since from the early stage of the war, because a guerrilla warfare always triggers an escalation of reactions which lead to harsh retaliations well beyond of the law of war. That means that all European countries, especially their military, would have considered such kind of warfare as outrageous. The question of the slavery would have then definitely taken a crucial aspect thus condemning the "promoting party" (the Confederacy) as unworthy of joining the class of the civilized nations.
2 - It would have anticipated the strategy of "total war" the Union started in 1864, whose consequences upon the civilians needs no comment.
3 - The war would probably have been longer, but the aftermath, especially for the South, would have been surely more disastrous than the one it was.
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