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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
forces (during ODS) were equal? you have a mighty low opinion of our Military! wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Actually, they were not equal in numerical terms, which is what Nathan's Dad seemed to be saying. Coalition forces were outnumbered almost 2:1. At the time the Iraqi's had the third largest army on Earth(the US army was 4th at the time).
There are lots and lots of examples of few taking on many. The Battle for Rourkes Drift is one. The Battle of Mogadishu is another(the force ratios in that one were about 1,000:1)
And of course there are even 1 vs 100s examples, like Audie Murphy, when he won his CMoH, or Sgt York, or hundreds of others. The citations for the US CMoH are all online, some of them are utterly beyond belief.
Were they miracles? Sure, why not? What's the difference if they were or they weren't. The net result is the same.