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Wars are won on logistics, absoluteoy. And guess who is responsible for that? Hint, it isn't Corporal Smith.

• pdonis 3y ago
  Generals play a role, sure (and that includes generals who don't play a battlefield role at all), but they also need proper support from their government. Much of the credit for the Union logistics effort has to go to Stanton, the Secretary of War. The Confederates had nobody even close in their government, and didn't really see the value of it until it was too late.
  • hef19898 3y ago
    To make a story that covers whole libraries, logistics, supply chains and war industry, really short: Government, during war time, sets the priorities and policies, industry put those policies in place. This results in output, guns, uniforms, tanks, horses, ammunition, boots, food, planes, ships... How said output is used on the battlefields, and more importantly how it gets to said battlefields, is the Generals thing (including theirs staff, the general staff, high command...). Also, the civil war was one of the first semi-indistrial wars. And those cannot be won without a proper industrial base, which the South never had. And no single person can change that.