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Originally Posted by dyna mo
the actual # is 8 million russian soldiers dead.
But again, we had no problems sending soldiers after dead soldiers all through the Pacific theater. The invasion of Japan was embraced by all the top brass and that invasion alone was expected to kill a million + soldiers.
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It's the main reason they dropped the atom bombs, so a million American lives wouldn't have been lost in an invasion of the Home Islands.
Americans DON'T want to fight wars where they suffer major casualties, why they spend billions on gadgetry that does the killing keeping soldiers as protected as possible.
As Patton said "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."