My post about American casualty was about the cost paid by others, in men lost, for an American international system.UBanerjee wrote:
China axis with TSP must be factored in military scenarios. For example any analysis of IAF vis-a-vis PLAAF must also factor in the PAF. India will be flanked by China unless reverse flanking is prepared via Vietnam, Japan. India is not that behind economically, but we must admit that it is not even, and Pakistan hangs like a weight around India that China doesn't have with Taiwan, as there is no deep civilizational rift to leverage. Accepting the status quo won't do, something transformational is needed.
Also rather OT but your analysis of 'low' American casualties in WW2 reveals only facts of geography, not anything about American fighting culture (maritime war vs land war- they didn't fight a land war because the thing was in Eurasia! America is a maritime because Eurasia is the world-heart, not North America). What were they supposed to do, have their marines fight more poorly so they could look good on the blood scale? one sees Americans were quite efficient, on average only one casualty for every 5 or 6 Japanese despite being attackers on unfamiliar jungle warfare. Or get attacked by Canada (right) so they could lose tons of men fighting a land war for the home soil?
Think about it, the most heavy casualties were paid by Soviets, Chinese, Europeans (excluding axis powers). But what replaced the European Imperialist world order was an american world order. And the ironical part is that Americans had the lowest amount of people killed. Please note I am not belittling the efforts of americans or the sacrifices they made. American endeavors were significant in scope and breath and have to be praised.
I was just pointing out that if America believes that its future combat operations are mainly going to be on sea and air, then it leaves the land fighting to some body else. And due to the nature of land combat the cost paid is higher compared to any sea or air conflict. The way I see it, is that America is shrinking from carrying its weight.
