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Originally Posted by HistoricalDavid
IIRC US Armed Forces reached a total of 12 million men deployed during WWII; I don't know how many were actually deployed abroad, but regardless they also faced a different sort of enemy. I realise plenty here will disagree (High probability of collision: Bluesman) but Iraqi insurgents and Al-Qaeda are not on the same level as German and Japanese troops... in any aspect, at least until the very end of the war (e.g. Volkssturm).
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I partially agree.
Al Queda and various terrorist organization are not any less deadly than Nazi soldiers or IJA soldiers. The difference is we are so much more superior in technology that we made them appear to be less deadly. I bet if we fought them with WW2 technologies then this would be a totally different fight. For one thing, they would have much larger equipment like tanks and even an air force. Right now we can bomb anything that we can spot from miles away, thus detering the ownership of tanks.
As what Bluesman said once, if they can bomb us from 30,000 ft they would do it. Suicide and roadside bombs are weapons of losers. We made them go that route.