Subject: Re: TRUMP: Military Never Fought to Win
after WWII “we were very strong, but we never fought to win. We just didn’t fight to win.”

Here’s an interesting statistic:

Vietnam, in total, is roughly the same size as Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky. South Vietnam is about the size of Arkansas.

Now, about World War II: Add up all the ordinance - artillery and bombs - that were used, by everyone , Allies and Axis powers in every theater of war:

All the bombs made and produced by the US. Everything that Germans dropped on England in the Blitz. All the munitions used by Italy in the African campaign. Everything Japan used as it rampaged through China, Burma, Indochina and the Phillipines.

Add in all the ordinance in the US campaigns through the Solomon Islands, Midway, Okinawa, Iwo Jima and the rest. Be sure to include everything the Nazi’s shot off as they took over Poland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Greece and the rest.

Be sure to include all the bombs dropped on Germany by the US and England, and don’t forget to add in the ordinance used by both sides on the road to the battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad, and the oil fields of Baku and Grozny. And don’t forget about the explosives at D-Day used by both sides.

And while I’ve left out a lot, the list starts to be tiresome, so let’s just include the TNT equivalent of the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and on Hiroshima as we fill the pot.

Take all of that, and more. That’s how much explosive power we used in Vietnam, a single, small country somewhere in the remote area of Indochina. More, actually.

It’s difficult to try to reconcile the idea that “we didn’t try”. We did try. We screwed it up, we had bad strategies, we had bad generals, we had bad everything. It isn’t that “we didn’t try.” It’s that we lost. Period.