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The strategic intimidation, in which also Lee was a master. It consists in menacing the enemy capital or other vital objectives and by that means compel the opponent to cover them and follow the attacker's movements until become "clinched" and unable
to regain its own "freedom of movements".
In other words his main strategic task was the destruction of the enemy armies and only but as secondary option the seizing of positions, territories, towns etc.
This strategy was applied by Grant towards Lee's Army, starting from The Wilderness and led to the conclusive campaign of Petersburg.
Lee's tentative to dissolve his army from that "mortal embrace" by using general Early's little army attacking through the Shenandoah Valley and menacing Washington as a means to reduce the pressure on Richmond-Petersburg front had but little impact on Grant's operational plans and failed.
The Vicksburg campaign was another remarkable example of Grant's major strategy aiming to progressively reduce the enemy's operational ability inducing Confederate General Pemberton to shut himself up in Vicksburg, where the lost of both fortress and army was only a matter of few weeks.
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win at all costs
What best describes general grants overall military strategy?
win at all costs
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False
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