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Originally Posted by HistoricalDavid
That's my point. Would we have the men for that scale of amphibious assault? (Would we tolerate the same casualties?) No, because war has changed and the average serviceman is going to be MUCH more expensive.
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You missed my point. Force mutliplier means more with less. We can achieve the same type of beachhead without as big of a fleet of ships and men. Battalions nowdays have more power than a lot of divisional formations of 50 years ago. Not to mention the precision with which we can hit an enemy.
You're asking could we do Overlord again in numbers. I'm saying that we could achieve a similar breakthrough, without the numbers.