spaight you never want to be that professor who is sox=@= obviously trying to sell books. the civil war, the big picture theme especially for the midshipmen is that there is that sometimes a collision between the way that a country wants to fight a war matt and how it ends up actually having to do so. the case relates to my book in 1861 the believe in the united states and the union confederacy is that you don't really need a professional military expertise. that's how the army got so small that in times of crisis good citizen soldiers will step forward and through their kind of virtue they will find a way and they will defeat because the of freedom and they have courage on their side and happens very quickly has become increasingly clear that in fact the war and military affairs retire the body of systematic professional, a lot of issues of competence that are not directly related to justice or perceptions of justice or even bravery and west pointers are there for the positions people that have that concrete military expertise. they therefore have to build it on the fly a