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Originally Posted by FlyingCaddy
Sun Tzu may have been a great general, but the fact is, he was a civil war general. Any genreal who gains a reputation for killing his fellow countrymen deserves less credit.
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Disagree very strongly. Just because you are fighting in a civil war does not make one's accomplishments any less real. In many ways, for those with mixed feelings, it makes being professional far more difficult because they are fighting for something against something else they believe in. That can make their contributions just as real. I don't think that many discount General Sheridan, General Sherman, or General Lee as being lesser generals just because they fought during a civil war.