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Originally Posted by Oche
...infantry will always prevail even though the meat grinder and cannon fodder days are hopefully forever far gone.
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I think it depends on what you're willing to die (sacrifice) for. Unlike the beaches of Normandy or the carnage at Iwo Jima, with volunteer armies we're not willing to die as that generation of WW2.
This war on terror has not solicited the same willingness to prevail as once was to defeat the Axis powers.
In the US, the days immediately following Pearl Harbor, the recruiting lines culminated in blocks. After, 9/11 we were told to go shopping whilst recruiters offered sign up bonuses.
Maybe in a future war, that generation will display the same willingness as a society to sacrifice as those did in WW2.
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