Actually, Americans are notorious for discovering within the first few months of any war quite how many things were not properly prepared, stockpiled, or updated. We sent the Army to Cuba in 1898 with tins of food leftover from the Civil War.https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1242080424588910592 …
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In 1917, we didn't send unprepared men into battle in France because we were so unprepared we didn't even have the men. We had the world's 17th largest army.
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When Lee launched the Gettysburg campaign, the Union Army had to dispatch Washington Roebling to locate maps of...Pennsylvania.
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Glad you got home OK. Everybody's got a story.
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