"WWII & the G.I." Topic
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ScottWashburn  | 06 Dec 2018 4:05 a.m. PST |
And this is true for all the armies, not just the US GI. |
| farnox | 06 Dec 2018 11:34 a.m. PST |
Armor gets all the glory but it was the grunts that did most of the fighting. |
 Mserafin  | 06 Dec 2018 3:25 p.m. PST |
"You can keep your planes, your tanks, your atom bombs. You'll still have to have some little guy with a rifle weasel the other bastard out of his foxhole and get him to sign the peace treaty" Attributed to Patton, but I'm not sure the wording is exactly right. |
 Narratio | 08 Dec 2018 5:42 a.m. PST |
RAH wrote something similar. You shell it, fly over and bomb it, launch rockets at it but you won't own it until you stand a skinny 19 year old with a rifle on top of it. |
 Sgt Slag | 10 Dec 2018 10:09 a.m. PST |
Air power, and armor, shorten the war. If it were entirely infantrymen fighting… Nuclear weapons have the potential to end the war, remotely -- God save us from ourselves… The nuclear winter would likely kill 90% of the "victor's" population, so it would be a pyrrhic victory, at best. Launch enough surgically precise drones, and you might be able to solicit surrender prior to sending in the skinny 19-year-old Infantryman, to stand atop the hill, with a rifle. The poll seems too simplistic, to me. I voted, "Other".
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