Explanation: The 2nd Punic War and the early Coalition Wars were good examples of non-industrial total wars where indomitable political will could replenish any losses and beat seemingly insurmountable odds.
The Triple Alliance War… not so much. This is one of the only wars where the *manpower* ran out before the political will, leading to the loss of over 50% of the Paraguayan male population. One of the reasons why the first two worked and the Triple Alliance War didn’t was because Revolutionary French generals were usually good due to merit-based promotion, and the Romans eventually did get good generals (Marcellus, Scipio Africanus, etc. along with Fabius’s strategy). Paraguay had no competent generals and did not get any. If it did, any competent Paraguayan general would have tried to coup Lopez for starting that destructive war.
GodBlessIraq on
paraguay really tried to 1v3 the entire continent
Level_Hour6480 on
“They took my-a-guay?!”
Jack_Church on
Ah yes, the War of the Triple Alliance, the second ever recorded instance of a self-genocide by cops.
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Explanation: The 2nd Punic War and the early Coalition Wars were good examples of non-industrial total wars where indomitable political will could replenish any losses and beat seemingly insurmountable odds.
The Triple Alliance War… not so much. This is one of the only wars where the *manpower* ran out before the political will, leading to the loss of over 50% of the Paraguayan male population. One of the reasons why the first two worked and the Triple Alliance War didn’t was because Revolutionary French generals were usually good due to merit-based promotion, and the Romans eventually did get good generals (Marcellus, Scipio Africanus, etc. along with Fabius’s strategy). Paraguay had no competent generals and did not get any. If it did, any competent Paraguayan general would have tried to coup Lopez for starting that destructive war.
paraguay really tried to 1v3 the entire continent
“They took my-a-guay?!”
Ah yes, the War of the Triple Alliance, the second ever recorded instance of a self-genocide by cops.