The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The fundamental rule of warfare that Benjamin Franklin talks about is the following. "There is no such thing as a good war or bad peace."
That is why Benjamin Franklin -a founding father of the United States- considered that war was the most expensive way to get what a country wanted, which was territory or impose the country's ideology into another country to be invaded. Although he personally had no fear to wage war, he thought that there were other ways to accomplish things, better and less expensive than wars.
The yellow turbans, I believe, but i dont really know.
When General Grant took command, the Union Army was still exchanging prisoners of war. This allowed each side to return their men to their country to fight again. Grant knew that the Union had more men and could produce more weapons than the Confederate. So he ended the prisoner exchange. This of course resulted in more men held in prisoner of war camps and creating problems for both sides, resulting in many deaths in these camps---both in the North and in the South. Grant also pressed his troops to stay on the attack. In some battles, his casualties were very high but he still knew that the Confederates could not replace their losses as easily as the Union could. Grant used General Sherman to force the war onto the civilian population and the industrial centers of the Confederacy. This was a new concept to most commanders. War was a duel between armies on the field of battle. The destruction of the industrial sites prevented an enemy from arming his troops and conducting war.
Yes, lack of foreign conflict for close to 100 years until world war 1 which is a sign of its success.
