Everybody now realizes that, once war was begun, absolutely the most efficient means of making it speedily and overwhelmingly victorious, as well as of defending the most exposed half of our own coast, was to go to Manila.
Reid argues that going to Manila was the most effective strategy for a swift victory in the war.
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