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Originally Posted by gunnut
It just seems like there won't be any land battle on the scale of WW2 in the foreseeable future. All the deployment today are on the brigade level. Why is that? Did people finally realize that wars are an expensive endeavor? Or are people finally making good enough living that they don't want to fight?
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Everything old is new again. This is not the 1st time that we went down in formation size. It has happenned at least 15 times in history. The Greek Phalanx, the Roman Legion, the Han Tri Link, the Mongol Horde, the Napoleonic Regiments, the Blitzkreig all defeated larger formations with smaller numbers.
As I already stated in this thread. The British managed to burn Washington DC with 10 percent of the men committed to Stalingrad.
What is happenning today is the wide gap between combattants. The primitive combattants facing 1st world or even 2nd world armies are so far behind that we can commit brigades, hell, let's be real, battalions and destroy entire 3rd world armies without blinking an eye.
The problem is what happens when 1st world army meet 1st world army ... as happenned at Stalingrad.