can you tell me what the exit strategy as for WWII?
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Excellent. In the darkest days of World War 2 the American public began to become disgruntled about being in the war. After reports of thousands of troops dying sometimes daily, many parents of fallen soldiers began to actually write dissenting letters to the generals and and other governmental leaders. But our government made the decision to stay the course and continue to absolute victory. And now, despite the heavy losses, history has vindicated our involvement in the war as being a great triumph over tyranny. The same can be said about our leaders resolve for victory during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.\n\nSince then, the government gave in to public pressure during the Korean and Vietnamese wars; both of which the military could have ultimately come out victorious. In fact, commanders in the field in Vietnam will tell you that we were not losing the war. In counting casualties, we lost 58,000 troops killed to an astonishing over 2 million Vietnamese. \n\nThe problem is, just like after 9/11, Americans are all patriotic and ready to fight - until the body bags start coming in. You can't win a war like this. In WW2 our leaders fought on despite the pain of losses. Once complete victory and success has been achieved in Iraq, history will vindicate it as a war worth fighting as well. If we just pack up and leave because of public pressure, then just like Vietnam this current conflict will go down in American history as a failure.
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I LOVE Lord of the Flies. \nWell, here goes:\nWW2 started in the Pacific in 1937. It started in Europe in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and defeated the nation a month or so later. They also ended up invading and conquering the Netherlands, Denmark, the Balkans, Greece, etc.\nThe Germans were doing great; in fact, they were even defeating the British, when they stupidly invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1940. They managed to get all the way into the mainland (Russia), but were beaten back after the siege of Leningrad ended, Moscow was not taken, and Stalingrad was won by the Soviets.\nMeanwhile the Americans were attacked in 1941 by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. The US was already mobilizing for war, and the day after Pearl Harbor, our congress declared war on Japan. A day after that, Germany declared war on us. We spent a while training our troops, meanwhile sending many to the Pacific theater early on in 1942 to fight Japan. We finally went into Continental Europe with the Brits and Canadians on June 6, 1944 or D-day. We won, pushing the Germans east out of France. The Italians abandoned their allies the Germans, and sided with the Americans and company.\nWe went into Belgium and the Netherlands with our allies the British and Canadians, liberated them, then finally penetrated Germany itself.\nWe were about to take Berlin, but decided against it. We allowed the Soviets to take it instead, because they were more willing to tolerate the huge amount of casualties it took to take that one city.\nIn the Pacific, we island hopped, meaning we liberated island after island. We were about to go into Tokyo, but decided against it. Too many casualties. So, instead of course we dropped the atomic bombs! \nIn the end both Germany and her remaining allies, Hungary, Romania, etc. surrendered, as did Japan in the pacific.\nHitler killed himself, as did most of his staff, and the Japanese people were forbidden by the US to "emperor worship", which is what caused the war in Japan in the first place.\nHope this helps.
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Just save your life and Run . That is a better way of doing this. Serve your country is good but occupying other country is bad. Humanity VS. Quick Money hey?  Please think of your family and don't risk your life. Let the Iraqis and Afghans kill their own terrorists. You save your life for you and your family and if your country is attacked defend it. Don't go for a war which was based on a pure lie " Weapons of Mass Destruction",. Remember? USA had given Saddam and Taliban all those guns to fight USSR and Iran back in 80's. Think. Don't waste your young-hood and energy. You won't be serving your country. You will be attacking others to expand the Oil companies over our lives
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It's basically who ever is on the upside of a treaty wins. Sometimes like in the WWs the central and axis powers lost by accepting an unconditional surrender (complete surrender). Sometimes it is who ever conquers the whole country, not necessarily by determined by casualties.
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don't waste time defending this proposition. the fact is that all wars have survivors, even nuclear war. I'd suggest that your essay should chronicle progression of the mass murder that commenced in 1938 and continued through August 1945, with the extermination of 35 - 50 million (no one knows exact casualty totals) people during WW II. Billions survived this catastrophe, and billions will survive the next one.  Nonsense aphorisms such as the one your essay is to explore seem sensible, but in fact serve no purpose other than to distract rational persons from viewing their world in terms of its history and likely - even if dark - future. good luck!
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The question answers it well. Make your enemy your friend. Lowering yourself to the level of taking a life proves very little. \n\nIf, as in military conflict, you have a 'kill or be killed' decision, then kill.\n\nBefore it escalates to such petty options, the best choice is definitely to make allies of your enemies. The best result for all parties is trade and negotiation. War, hatred and fighting bring about little. The winner may lose, the loser, definitely loses.\n\nCheers, L
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Writing a book, hmmmm....Look people the next big one will start with nukes going off at the same time in Tel Aviv, NY, DC, and London. \n\nThat will be from Iran's Hamas, next will be freighters in all of the US shipping ports having nukes in lead shielded boxes in the fuel oil tanks of merchant ships. That will effectively take the US completely out of it in the first 30mins of WW3 \n\nNow after that North Korea will take South Korea and China will take Japan and as much of Russia as possible. Europe will wisely sue for peace with China as the new World Super power. \n\nAfter things calm down a bit negotiations between the EU and China will take place. The former US will be divided up between the two based upon the premise that France will not nuke what is left. \n\nDuring these negotiations the EU and China will also plan a lightning take over of the middle east which will also be divided up between the two powers. When all is said and done there will be peace and technological progress unheard of before.
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When the military establishments wants to install loyalty, spirit d’ corp and romance they come up with something like “leave no soldier behind”.  Take a look at WW II How many of you knew that more than 25,000 of our WWII American POW/MIAs were "liberated" near the end of WWII by Soviet Red Army troops as they advanced through Eastern Europe and the eastern part of Germany? How many of you knew that ONLY 4165 of those American servicemen "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army in WWII ever came home? (That’s less than 1/5 of those men!)  How many of you knew that General Eisenhower had lists of these brave American fighting men who had been "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army at the end of WWII, and that he and top levels of the U.S. government "WROTE OFF" these men who had bravely served their country, leaving them to ROT in Soviet gulags?\nHow many of you knew that in the Korean War we had 7190 POWs, and that ONLY 4428 were ever repatriated? How many of you knew that there were OVER 8000 men MIA from the Korean War?\nHow many of you knew that there were OVER 2400 POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War, and that these men are now listed as "PFOD" (Presumptive Finding of Death)?\nHow many of you knew that a U.S. Army colonel serving at the Defense Intelligence Agency (Colonel Millard A. Peck, Infantry) requested to be "retired immediately" from active military service because of the Pentagon’s cover-ups of any evidence that surfaced showing our POW/MIAs were still alive? (Colonel Peck had been the Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing In Action.) ((NOTE: The Pentagon’s cover-up of the POW/MIA issue CONTINUES to this very day!))\nHow many of you were aware that CBS’s "60 Minutes" assigned Monika Jensen-Stevenson to do a segment on the POW/MIA issue; however, when she discovered irrefutable evidence that American fighting men were STILL being held in Laos, Vietnam, and the "former" Soviet Union, CBS REFUSED to air that segment! (Jensen-Stevenson quit her job at CBS and pursued the POW/MIA story on her own, later writing a book entitled Kiss the Boys Goodbye.)\nquote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it." \nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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Absolutely correct, buddy. Exactly the same as Vietnam, declare victory and then pull out. But there's still victory in Iran and North Korea, yet.
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Find a wasp's nest and hit it with a stick.  If the wasps become angry, explain that you are bringing them freedom and hit the nest again with greater force and frequency.\n\nSound foolish?\n\nAny more then this country's policies in Iraq?\n\nThere is a valid (if twisted) point to the approach you suggest, however.  For most a human history, military campaigns were staggeringly successful compared to modern day ones.  Take the USSR if Afghanistan or the US in Viet Nam or Iraq:  These wars COULD be won as quickly and decisively as wars of old (the whole mid-east went from Christan to Muslim in two generations) but to do so requires the sort of tactics that were employed back then.  UTTER DECIMATION.  Barbarity on a scale that a world with Internet and TV doesn't allow for.\n\nThe Romans were in a very similar situation in Judea.  A gorilla war that couldn't be subdued through force without utterly destroying the territory.  So they did.  This is what would be required to bring the situation in Iraq under control but I'd like to think we wouldn't do that.\n\nBest to keep out of their country and let them kill each other.  They're going to anyhow...
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you are. no doubt about it. on one side u are talking about humanity on the other hand Hiroshima & Nagasaki.on one hand you are talking about fighting against terrorism on the other hand you are neglecting(or helping?) Pakistan. on one hand you are asking China to retreat from chinies taipei on the other hand you are occuping Afganistan,Iraq and Iran on the agenda next. you want the world to be under your foot. but never forget Hitler, Musolini, Alexander the great,Japan they all failed. where are you heading for? as far as China, India,Israel is concerned you will be axing the branch on which you are sitting. Pakistan is already under your control.
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finish the damn job then leave as victors.
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The formal surrender of Japan aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2 1945, marking the end of  World War II.\n\n(Italy having surrendered in September 1943 & Germany in May 1945).
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A little history lesson. Just prior to the start of WWII\na prime minister of Britain named Neville Chamberlain went\nto Germany to discuss friendship and peace with Hitler.\nHitler sucked him in and they all signed peace papers.\nChamberlain came back all smiles, waving his paper and\nexclaiming , "Peace in our time". Less than a year later\nHitler invaded Poland commencing WWII, making a fool of Chamberlain who resigned as prime minister shortly after.\n  The act of backing off from a threatening tyrant,\nthinking that he will be satisfied and stop his agressive\nmoves has come to be known as "appeasement" in international\npolitics. The world learned the hard way that appeasement\nonly encourages the appetite of the agressor. That the\nthreat of counter force is the only thing that will stop\nhim.  The US used the threat of counter force successfully\nagainst the belligerence of the Soviet Union during the\nBerlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Middle East\nCrisis. We also used it against Saddam the first time\nand probably stopped him from taking Saudi Arabia. \n  What Iran is playing now is called brinkmanship. You\ngo to the brink of war in a game of chicken, hoping the\nother side backs down. If they do, you win without\nfiring a shot. \n  Friendship with a Radical Fundamentalist Muslim\ngovernment is impossible. That isn't just name calling.\nThat's what they are self defined as. Their international\nvalues and needs are contrary to ours. Their enemies are\nour friends(i.e., Israel) and their friends are our\nenemies(i.e., Al Qaeda).
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one of their allies had the atomic bomb and were prepared to use it. also, Germany was the main foe, being so close to taking over Europe, they had to worry about them first. military strategy throughout history warns about fighting a battle on 2 fronts. depletes your resourses and manpower. Germany was the main concern then take on Japan.
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Briefly to say, it's done for "profit" on the world chess board.\n\nAnd you have to trace back "Orange plan" by US government, that is the beginning of the conflict between US and Japan concerned to concession on China.\nIn any time, you'll see that it'll be done again with same logic and way.\n\nIn latter part of the WW2, on this issue, the war in Pacific Ocean between US and Japan, US government already recognized that Japan, where just being field of debris of air-attacks all land, had consumed less deposit of resources, not only reason why US stopped the export to the small country where has almost nothing, but why Japan expanded territory to get it in 1894, while joining in the imperialism by British Empire, France, Netherlands... and later US, Russia Portugal, Belgium, Swaziland and Norway on China after 1842.\n\nYou would recollect some of historical and big events in facts by the means and way, like Vietnam, Nicaragua ... Updating to Afghanistan, and the strike against Iraq with complete armed logic.\n\nOn the world chess board, out of sight on the aspect of such Japan, he looked over the order of post-war, particularly advantage and strategy for self-concession on Eurasia, which had already discussed some times, in Yalta for example, as if in Versailles in 1919, between US, England, Russia, China and France.\n\nYou  have to  read and widely consider about your issue in this context. And you should trace some of facts, which are apparent and trustful without justifying any side, to find your answer. \n\nSee the following the key below,
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Whatever you are planning : military attack or business\nI think you need to read "The Art of the War" by Sun Tzu.