Your earliest ill-conceived notions of war
Mar 3, 2022 6:26:46 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 3, 2022 6:26:46 GMT
As a young kid, I used to think that countries had finite professional career soldiers at any point in time. I probably believed that WWII was won, for example, because more of the Allied soldiers survived than the Axis.
A war that started in 1939 & ended in 1945, I surely believed that a country was stuck with however many soldiers it had in 1939 & had to see which side could last the longest with numbers (or in the case of the US &/or others, got to start late with their finite forces).
I'd no idea of tours of duty or replenishing forces... I just thought that military was a career choice & any casualty of war was a way of keeping score on a battlefield.
A war that started in 1939 & ended in 1945, I surely believed that a country was stuck with however many soldiers it had in 1939 & had to see which side could last the longest with numbers (or in the case of the US &/or others, got to start late with their finite forces).
I'd no idea of tours of duty or replenishing forces... I just thought that military was a career choice & any casualty of war was a way of keeping score on a battlefield.
