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Originally Posted by theking
There are multiple quantifiers but I will use this as a major quantifier. With approximately one third of our current population...at the end of the Second World War we had 16 million Americans in uniform...multiple millions in Theater against the Germans and multiple millions in Theater against the Japanese. In Vietnam we had approximately 500,000 in theater...and approximately the same during the '91 "Gulf War".
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Technological advances = less foot soldiers needed in theatre. Doesn't make the effort against them any less "full blast". We aren't living in 1942 anymore Pathfinder. We will never have "millions" on the ground ever again.