Revisionist American History

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One dingbat American Historian has theorized the the USA has always fought its wars with an eye of keeping its casualities down, because the American people could not stomah the losses of huge numbers of casualties. That the USA has used its Industrial capacity as a substitite for manpower and the attending losses.

This is total BS...In WW1 the US was throwing in troops just as the Brits and French....Germany just collapsed beofre too many Americans became casualties.

In WW2 the USA realized it was in a life or death strggle with Japan and Germany. The USA would have done whatever it took to accomplish the mission, even if it meant millions of casualities.

1. Look at the casualty rate sustained during the Strategic Bombing Campaign over Germany... 65%....Yet the US kept at it.

2. The USA was planning on invading the home islands of Japan with the attending projection of 1M US casualties.

3. Look at the percentage rates of casualities during the Island hopping campaign in the Pacific during WW2. Yet the US kept at it.

4. The main US battle tank was the Sherman...a vertible tin can of sterno when hit. Yet the philisophy was keep sending em in until you knock out the German tanks....Attrition pure and simple.


Even the Viet war did not disuade American military from sustaining casualties...all 55,000 deaths.

But tt was the evening news footage of the war in Vietnam where Americans lost their stomach for war and casualites. Now the historians are trying to tell us that was the way it was all along. Don't think so.