Author Eric Flint (admittedly of fiction) postulates in two alternate  
history books - 1812: the Rivers of War and 1824- The Arkansas War,  
that the only solution to many of the problems the American Indian  
had with White Americans could only have been solved by a much larger  
standing Army than the early Republic was willing to maintain. He  
makes a pretty good argument that the tiny professional military was  
totally incapable of keeping White Americans from encroaching on  
Indian land. But when the Indians reasonably objected to defacto  
abrogation of treaties by land hungry settlers, the Army could defeat  
the Indians in battle and force them to move.

James Brothers, RPA
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