The Greatest Generation when to war and stayed pretty much for the entirety of the war with little breaks between. Tours? How about nearly four consecutive years worth? Stress? I can't imagine the horrors they witnessed in that war compared to the video game style of warfare soldiers today are involved with. Stress? Non-stop battles for weeks - sometimes months during WWII. Nothing in this war even comes close.
WW2 had defined theaters and targets. Different stress levels today.
Yeah video game warfare. Really. If it was a video game then 4,000 soldiers wouldn’t have died in Iraq.
Too many of the guys are going over there thinking its a game.
Of course, I am just a 17 year old. What do I know.
What I do know is that the Iraq War was hardly bloodless and just because you had TV missles and advanced tanks meant nothing for an enemy that did not have a decadent public calling for their withdrawal.
War is about will. Americans better be ready to stay in Afghanistan. No more ceding ground and looking weak.