Preserve it's small armies while doing enough damage to erode the Union's will to fight
Answer:
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Explanation:
Cuba, which was an ally of the USSR that is located off the shores of the United States, was receiving shipments of Nuclear-armed Missiles, which were in range of several US installments and shipments. The US ran surveillance as well as a blockade in an effort to keep the ballistic missiles from entering Cuba.
The event was resolved when the USSR agreed to remove the ballistic missiles, in which they in turn asked the US to remove theirs from Turkey. The settlement was made, and crisis was averted.
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It helped spread the ideas of the Enlightenment across Europe and beyond. ... The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789. After the Revolution, the Enlightenment was followed by the intellectual movement known as Romanticism.
The country with true theocracy is Israel. Israel is gradually however unyieldingly transforming into a moderate religious government while the Diaspora is to a great extent devoted to liberal vote based system. Israel is no vote based system, and it never has been concerning the 4 million Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza. It has dependably been a strongly defective vote based system concerning its own particular Arab residents.