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Confederate military strategy can be stated in far simpler terms — survive. To win, the Union had to invade and attack Confederate resources and its military strength. By remaining on the strategic defensive, inflicting heavy losses on invading enemy armies, and protecting its critical weak points, the Confederacy could conserve its limited resources and simply hold out until the Union leaders gave up. If the Union did not give up easily, the Confederacy included as part of its strategy a plan to end the war through the intervention of a major European power on the Confederacy’s behalf. This scenario may sound familiar. It is the same strategy that won the 13 colonies their independence from Great Britain in the American Revolution, when France entered into an alliance with the Americans. Another option was to gain a decisive victory on the battlefield that would convince the Union to seek peace, or convince the Europeans that the Confederacy had the capability to survive as an independent country.