cut resources, take control of the Mississippi, send 80,000 troops through the Mississippi to infiltrate the Confederacy and split it in two, then use a more conventional army to secure key forts and locations
Why was there opposition to the Anaconda plan?
They were still fixated on quick victories in Napoleonic style advances. Taking the capital Richmond was favoured
Did the adapated plan work?
Yes
What other factors influenced the anaconda plan?
Tech, alliances, industrial capacity. Steamboats (tech) could be used to launch a blockade of Southern ports to starve the South out of the war as they had limited industrial capacity and no alliances
