Re: Acceptable US Casualties Against 3rd World Armies
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Please remember Western soldiers are relatively expensive (although none of them are paid enough) and there are fewer and fewer of them.
In my day (1980's) the British Armed Forces (Royal Navy including Royal Marines, British Army and Royal Air Force) was over 325,000 strong.
Today the British Armed Forces are only about 187,000 strong, in my view, at least, 50,000 short of what is required.
(That compares to to over 393,000 prior to WWI and over 384,000 prior to WWII, although the vital RN strength was relatively much higher in both cases).
US, and other Western, forces are also all thinner on the ground than they once were...
Last edited by IronDuke99; August 7th, 2016 at 09:07 PM..
Reason: spelling mistake.
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