Original sentence: Ward introduced what were, for the time, radical ideas involving force structure, training, discipline, and weaponry (though there are historians who question whether his lieutenant and confident Li Hongzhang, also was responsible for some of the then-unique ideas that forged the Ever Victorious Army)
Edited sentence: Ward introduced what were, for the time, radical ideas involving force structure, training, discipline, and weaponry (though there are historians who question whether his lieutenant and confidant Li Hongzhang, also was responsible for some of the then-unique ideas that forged the Ever Victorious Army)