![]() ![]() note Re-issued to Australian tankers Most of those 300,000 Italians have surrendered and Mussolini is begging Hitler for help. That British army, fighting odds of ten to one, is now well inside Italian Libya and has even managed to equip a full armoured brigade with captured Italian tanks. Only 36,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers oppose him. Hoping to extend his North African empire at the expense of a defeated Britain, he launches an invasion of British Egypt with 300,000 men. Mussolini has led Italy into the war, seizing large parts of the Mediterranean coast and some North African colonies from a defeated France. ![]() The Germans themselves got crushed by the Americans and their allies just as badly following the final exhaustion of their offensive strength in the Bulge/Nordwind offensives, leading to events such as the Ruhr Pocket by the time the Western Allies and the Soviets marched into the Reich itself in March 1945, German soldiers were being taken prisoner by the million and were flattened immediately in the event that they actually tried to fight back. For example, during World War 2 in France (see below), the campaign was decided by Sedan, after which the Germans took the entire country and two million prisoners in four weeks with far fewer casualties than in the preceding two weeks. In many ways, it is the modern equivalent of the rout stage of ancient field battles, where one side chases down and massacres the retreating broken enemy. The latter halves of major decisive modern operations tend to have very lopsided casualty ratios, as one side has been broken, usually bereft of their best troops and equipment and totally outflanked, and is left little alternative but to surrender en masse with little effective resistance.If we have to fight, then we're going to go for the jugular, not the capillaries. Twenty-four to twenty-one may be okay in the NFL on a Sunday afternoon, but not on the battlefield.I want to get them on the ropes and keep them there. ![]() (Ret.): If you have to fight.then 100 to nothing is about the right score for the battlefield. ![]()
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