How should one put it? At this point, American military thought was still woefully backward, stuck at the stage of copying France without even managing to copy it properly.
The more brilliantly Robert Lee and the others performed on the front lines, the more incompetent these homegrown French-school men of West Point appeared. After all, it was precisely these people who had once been beaten by The British until they threw away their helmets and armor, their homeland falling into enemy hands.
Thus, this group had been nursing a breath of resentment, eager to prove themselves. Yet the returned overseas faction had stabilized the front, shattered the myth of British invincibility, and even pulled sponsorship from Texas.
Everyone understood that a wise man did not fight when the odds were against him, but they could still keep poaching talent. After all, the wind did not always blow in the same direction.
For instance, more than a year of war had already ground the Americans down to exhaustion. Prices had soared, the stock market had crashed, business had withered, and war supplies were scarce.
Cotton had become the most sought-after commodity. Not only was it needed at the front; factories within America needed it as well. Yet the American government urgently needed cotton to pay off its debts and exchange for supplies with the Texas Colony.
American banknotes had completely become wastepaper. After occupying New York, The British began printing banknotes like mad to purchase supplies from American merchants.
This drove the inflation rate of American currency up by dozens of times, and no one was willing to accept paper money anymore. Many members of the middle class saw their assets wiped out overnight. Many middle-class men and women even had no choice but to compete with black people for jobs