Friday, March 7, 2008
Who gets to fight?
This may have fit better with the discussion on the AGCT but was the U.S. draft process more or less filtered than the other countries involved? It seems like Japan, German, and Russia just had non-stop waves of bodies to throw into this war. It would seem that sending less, but better trained troops would cut down on deaths and lead to a more strategic war. I could be totally off base here, but it seems that if the U.S. had just sent every capable man who could fire a gun into war we would not have preformed as well due to even more inexperienced soldiers messing things up. Would a more detailed selection process have helped these other countries?
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While that may be true in a country such as Russia, their main asset is the gigantic population they have. So, with that mindset the idea of only using the best of the best might of worked out far better, but tradition is tradition.
I read in the readings that Germany (in the East) was short of men and so they had to rely on thier allies' armies. They could not just throw in more men or supplies because they grew thin at time. It seemed to be about priorities for that specific time as to where men would come from.
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