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Originally Posted by Raellus
The American Civil War has been called the first modern war by many military historians. ...The more I think about it, the more the American Civil War seems like a good model for warfare in the later years of the Twilight War.
...The scale of fighting in 2000 would more closely resemble the scale of warfare during the ACW than it would that of WWII. The parallels that I see have mostly to do with warfare on a strategic and operational level (the latter moreso than the former). ...
Second, during the ACW, there wasn't much of a front line in a modern sense- at least not a continuous one. The country was simply too big and the relative armies small in relation to the territory being contested. Units tended to congregate near major, strategically important population centers (i.e. cantonments, in T2K parlance) but units could range far and wide while on campaign. ...
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The ACW has also been referred to as the last Napoleonic war, and I think that speaks more to what you are seeing. Armies didn't use to have the ability to cover entire theaters with manpower, such as in WW1 & WW2, so they concentrated to fight. Somewhere after the ACW, armies got that big (the Russo-Turkish and Russo-Japanese Wars were close, but not there yet).
The "operational" level of war emerged as a concept around WW1 in Russian (later Soviet) thinking-- before that, marching one's army around was part of strategy.
Anyway, yes, I agree with your thought that 2000 armies will be more concentrated, leaving more gaps between them.