Q&A - Drach, loved your vid on the CSS Alabama. Can you please tell us, what was the long term effect of the success of this raider on future wars? It seems like the success of raiders is always romanticized however, it also seem as though the great raiders have always belonged to the navy with the lessor naval presence in a given wars. Both WWs saw the Germans with a legendary raider, Emden and Graf Spee, they seem to carry on the tradition of the Alabama in more ways than one, especially as they all ended in similar ways. Is commerce raiding always the path of the weaker state in a war, the act of a desperate nation? Please comment on this multifaceted question.
