The south could have won the war if they stuck to defense instead of being stupid and trying to defeat the union which was more then double their size in military might.
Uh, no.
South has little munitions, little raw materials, little anything. Hell, before the war Union generals knew this to be true. The only reason the war lasted as long as it did was because the tactics initially were outdated.
Most southerns were well trained soldiers but soldiers they drafted or those who enlisted (mostly blacks) never held a gun in their life and they went through a few months of training.
No.
Most Southerners were rural folk who had perhaps handled a gun but they were not on their own a functional army. Lee was a blunderfest, Jackson died to his OWN troops, and that moron they sent out to Kansas lost them the entire tristate area.
WWII
What did you want America to do with island hopping? Just go to Japan which you cannot do because the US actually wanted to take the islands back from Japan.
Island hopping was bloody business. Thought to be neccessary but nonetheless, it was not "whipping out the Japanese army." The Japanese fought to the last man. My greatuncle was at Okinawa and I've heard the stories. And your initial point was the Americans had ten millions troops who were all barely trained and they kicked ass. Btw, that's wrong.
Now then with the bombing on Japanese city, they could have gone head on with the Japanese forces and the American Forces would have won but they did this to end the war without losing so many more.
The Japanese didn't give up until days after the second bomb. Their resolve was ironclad. Back to your original point which I attacked, this had NOTHING to do with little trained ten million troops.
Now for training. How much training do you think they got? A few months maybe because they needed to been sent out as soon as possible for both Civil War and WWII.
Union troops and generals were sometimes part of the professional army or had been in the Mexican War. This is wartime training which btw > "little training". Go look up the biographies of the major Union generals. Almost all of them had service records either with the Indians and/or in the Mexican War.
As for WWII, troops received very extensive training. At this time places like Paris Island was training Marines for the Eastern theatre of operations. Marines are trained -very- well. As for regular mudcrunchers, they were more or less on level ground with contemporary training methods. This was still less than the Germans, but of course the Germans had a militaristic state. WWII American troops were mostly volunteers, with the professional soldiers taking up the non-com ranks and officer ranks.
And try to pay attention to the length soldiers were trained who were drafted and enlisted for the war then those who joined years later.
Try to pay attention? I no doubtedly know more about history then you do. Don't preach to the choir, especially if you're preaching the wrong sermon.
Btw, here's your figures
http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html
And if you did know about WWII you would know the american army had 12 million in it because so many men drafted into the army after pearl harbor that women entered the work force or do you not know about that?
No, it didn't have twelve million in active service for sure. D-Day, the largest Allied invasion of the war which had combined forces of Canada, US, and Britain, barely numbered over a million.
If the Americans had twelve million troops they could contend with the Soviets.