The Book of Mormon accounts of wartime strategy are strikingly realistic. Understanding the strategy and tactics of war requires years of study, extensive training, and real-life experience. Something Joseph Smith lacked.

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The Book of Mormon accounts of wartime strategy are strikingly realistic. Understanding the strategy and tactics of war requires years of study, extensive training, and real-life experience. Something Joseph Smith lacked.

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A careful reading of Moroni’s epistle can help demonstrate that, rather than going back on his word, Moroni was likely justified in withdrawing his offer to exchange prisoners. Ammoron had utterly refused the most essential part of the bargain—to cease the war—and Moroni was certainly not going to“grant unto him that he shall have any more power than what he hath got” (Alma 55:2).

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A careful reading of Moroni’s epistle can help demonstrate that, rather than going back on his word, Moroni was likely justified in withdrawing his offer to exchange prisoners. Ammoron had utterly refused the most essential part of the bargain—to cease the war—and Moroni was certainly not going to“grant unto him that he shall have any more power than what he hath got” (Alma 55:2).

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A careful reading of Moroni’s epistle can help demonstrate that, rather than going back on his word, Moroni was likely justified in withdrawing his offer to exchange prisoners. Ammoron had utterly refused the most essential part of the bargain—to cease the war—and Moroni was certainly not going to“grant unto him that he shall have any more power than what he hath got” (Alma 55:2).

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A careful reading of Moroni’s epistle can help demonstrate that, rather than going back on his word, Moroni was likely justified in withdrawing his offer to exchange prisoners. Ammoron had utterly refused the most essential part of the bargain—to cease the war—and Moroni was certainly not going to“grant unto him that he shall have any more power than what he hath got” (Alma 55:2).

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The language in Alma 54 suggests that Ammoron was familiar with the underlying institution of blood redemption. He saw himself as acting in a redemptive capacity. His threat to Moroni that he would specifically “avenge [his brother Amalickiah’s] blood upon you” invokes and captures the thrust of the blood vengeance mechanism stemming from the earliest days of ancient Israelite history.

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The language in Alma 54 suggests that Ammoron was familiar with the underlying institution of blood redemption. He saw himself as acting in a redemptive capacity. His threat to Moroni that he would specifically “avenge [his brother Amalickiah’s] blood upon you” invokes and captures the thrust of the blood vengeance mechanism stemming from the earliest days of ancient Israelite history.

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The language in Alma 54 suggests that Ammoron was familiar with the underlying institution of blood redemption. He saw himself as acting in a redemptive capacity. His threat to Moroni that he would specifically “avenge [his brother Amalickiah’s] blood upon you” invokes and captures the thrust of the blood vengeance mechanism stemming from the earliest days of ancient Israelite history.

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The language in Alma 54 suggests that Ammoron was familiar with the underlying institution of blood redemption. He saw himself as acting in a redemptive capacity. His threat to Moroni that he would specifically “avenge [his brother Amalickiah’s] blood upon you” invokes and captures the thrust of the blood vengeance mechanism stemming from the earliest days of ancient Israelite history.

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