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Military strategies can shorten or lengthen a campaign during a war. Preparedness and the ability to anticipate an attack can be a turning point in a conflict. Poorly thought out actions can be disasterous.
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Atomic weapons impact the balance of military power in the world today in the sense that produce a sense of fear in the countries that have weak militaries.
Indeed they didn't until several years after the WW1. Even the American field commander of the Civil War didn't fully understand the relation in being between the massive employment of rifled guns, rifled cannons, the other new technologies and the very high rate of deaths. Their professional formation was based upon the tactic concepts of warfare developed during the Napoleonic Era, when those technologies didn't exist or, in case of the rifled muskets had been a rarity and all should have been decided by means of the impact of bayonet assaults carried on by masses of infantry against the enemy deployed in line. Only after the first two years of war, thanks to the experience made, their basic instruction as engineers and the tactic skill of many of them and the instinctive reaction of the citizen-soldiers who learnt how exploit the terrain to obtain some shelter during the fight, the situation on the battlefield improved a little. Furthermore, the general Staffs of the European Armies gave but little importance to the Civil War and the experiences made by means of the new technologies. They carried forward their own obsolete theories with the outcome that all the historians know and therefore we should not be surprised if the scholars and historian could realize the relation existing between the new technologies employed during the American Civil War and the high rate of losses on the battlefield only after more than sixty years.
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