Re: OU/NAC ship designations

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, John D. Hamill wrote:

> Brian Burger wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Bruce S. R. Lee wrote:
> > 
> > > As far as the NAC navy goes, the advantage of "CSN" is that you
can get a
> > > large amount of 1st (U.S.) Civil War 'surplus' buckles, buttons
etc in the
> > > re-enactor market for the first CSN - the Confederate States Navy.
Good if
> > > you want to turn up at a Con in costume to play.
> > >
> > > just a thought
> > >
> > > Bruce S. R. Lee
> > >
> > Maybe HMS would be better -- I don't know that I want my Power of
choice
> > to be identified with the Confederate States of America...not only
did
> > they pick a fight they couldn't win, they had some idealogical
oddities
> > I'm not comfortable with. :)
> > 
> > Of course, one reason I'm an NAC fan is that I like the idea of a
Canadian
> > invasion of the US...
> > 
> > Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
> 
> That's the part of the whole NAC thing that is so hard to swallow,
that
> just Canada and the UK could quell a country with the population and
> military resources of the US. Even if the majority of the military
were
> still loyal to Gen. Parham, (which is hard to believe, given the still
> large portion of regionalism in America) you still have huge amounts
of
> National Guard units that wouldn't be along with all those military
vets
> with the training and personal weaponry to make an invasion a VERY
> difficult process. I would really like to see Jon or someone else
write
> something that would attempt to justify this.
> 
> Now Brian, don't start the "the South couldn't win-oh yes it could"
war
> on this list. Besides, if you look at the history of the Civil War,
> there were several points in the war where the issue was very much up
in
> the air. It's hard to find a war where the people's personalities were
> so important to the outcome. It might look like a foregone conclusion
> today, but a few times, if Lincoln had not been the man he was the
North
> would have sued for peace.
> 
I hadn't intended to start any "South couldn't/ could so win", but it
looks like it's started anyway...sorry...:)

Brian.