Re: To all Veterans of all nations...

Paul F Austin wrote:

To be brutal about it, the losses from eight years of war in the
Sandbox (about 47,000 total) show exactly why an expert army pays off
in fewer casualties. In the two years of USian involvement in the
first half of World War, the US suffered 320,000 casualties, nearly
seven times as many as the GWOT's eight years. In the four years of the
second half
of World War, US casualties totaled one million, about twenty times as
many. In Vietnam, over four and a half times casualties.


You don't the calibre of the opposition might have been a factor
there do you ?

The Wehrmacht and Imperial Japan were rather more numerous, better
led and had equipment that was equal to or superior to that of the US Army
in 1942 and 1943.

Keith


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