[cynicom]

sakic...

Your analogy grossly fails to fit the actual operation.

Military history is replete with commanders wanting their forces to be at least 3 to 1 when attacking on the enemies home soil. With Iraq, this long accepted strategy was just the reverse. Iraqi military outnumbered the coalition at least 2 to 1. That was the primary concern espoused by all the armchair generals that were predicting defeat and or a quagmire.

Application of superior technology negated the need of overwhelming manpower on the ground.

[sakic]

The number of troops is not nearly as important as it used to be. This is not to demean our ground fighters as much as some here would like to think otherwise.

The technology of warfare used to be who had the better gun. Those days are gone.