Grant knew that he had twice the troop strength available to him then Lee had. No more prisoner exchanges and no more Mister Nice Guy. Wear them out, wear them down and a victory for the Union was a sure bet.
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In military terms a war of attrition is one where assaulting forces are so constant and over powering, that the enemy no longer has the forces to carry on the war or the battle. US Grant believed that in order to reduce the enemy, a war of exhaustion was the way to proceed.
A situation where there is no room for negotiation, and the two sides simply slug it out until one of them runs out of men and supplies.
war of attrition
The North wanted to fight a war of attrition which basically means they would just use their greater population to do as much damage as possible to the South. The South had a smaller population and therefore would have found it quite difficult to fight a war of attrition.
the 13 amenment was a long good term effect after the civil war.
A war of attrition is a war in which both sides suffer intermittent, but light casualties, making terrific gains in territory, but simply trying to "bleed the enemy as black as my soul" before their own navy's are decapitated by these intermittent losses.
Vietnam was a war of attrition. Kill as many communists as possible. The communists in turn, will try to do the same to us. He that kills the most wins the war. The measuring device was the "Body Count." The tactic used was "Search and Destroy." Vietnam War: 1. Strategy-Attrition 2. Tactics-Search and Destroy 3. Result (add em up)-Body Count