#TheNewAmericanCivilWar: The first day at Gettysburg was an existential threat like that of Pearl Harbor and #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis
Image: One of the two confirmed photos of Lincoln[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address#cite_note-1) [2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address#cite_note-2) [3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address#cite_note-3) (center, facing camera) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after he arrived and some three hours before his speech. To his right is his bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Hill_Lamon) . #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: The first day at Gettysburg was an existential threat like that of Pearl Harbor and #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Surprise attack, with a US government unenthusiastic about acknowledging the worst right off the bat. Why should it? We were smack in the middle of the best economy in history. John Buford rides into Gettysburg in 1863, wondering where Lee’s army is. Next morning, news of Henry Heath’s heavy infantry division on the Chambersburg road. At that moment, the Union was in an existential risk, no reason to think they could get out of it. Similar to how the virus seems to be winning now. First, take a deep breath and look at the situation again, Tempted to panic? In fact the Union was sitting pretty, having scouted the area for months. We thought Pearl Harbor was the end, but Japan was brittle and riding entirely on the Kedo Butai.