GDG- Re: CS supply

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Jack writes:

>>>>That bis an imprerssiveb list.My source is the US Army  WAr College. They 
specialize in studyig the manufacturing abiliity of the  other side.>>>>

They were probably citing Charles Dew's book on Tredegar.
 

>>>What I see you saying that ab few rails may have been  poroduced. The rest 
of 
your post deals with other things than  rails.>>>>
 
I actually talked a good bit about the rails and then went on to answer the  
other statements of your post.



>>>>As to the South not having the technology, I  think you ar saying they 
had it, but not much.
OK. They had no militarily  significant capacity.>>>>
They had technology.  The chemical labs they built in Macon, GA for  weapons 
manufacturing is proof of that.  Building locomotives is more proof  of that.  
These were not a bunch of gap-toothed hayseeds fighting this war  - they also 
had a highly educated component that commanded their industrial  base.
 
They did have the capacity to wage war - or else what they did would simply  
not have happened and the war would have been over much sooner than it  was.  
What I am trying to explain to you is that they lacked the ability to  take 
care of home front demands AND wage total war.  
 
I could make a similar argument like you trying to make about the greatest  
arsenal of democracy in world history - the USA in World War 2 - where even 
that  massive and highly technological industrial base who set the world 
standards for  mass production, still had to severely ration things for the home 
front, conduct  scrap drives etc.,  because there was not enough to go around to 
wage total  war AND take care of the home front on a peace-time level.  
Conversely, the  US economy had grown so much since then that we could fight the 
Vietnam War,  which cost much more than World War 2 did to our treasury, and yet 
not have to  ration things, not make things for the private sector, etc. or 
basically  adversely affect the civilians at home one iota.
 
Greg Biggs







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