From usatodayopinion: Russia and America, the two former Cold War superpowers, should be better positioned than any other nation to understand the high costs of fighting an extended war in which too many locals see you as murderous occupiers.
Russia and America, the two former Cold War superpowers, should be better positioned than any other nation to understand the high costs – in money, equipment, reputation and worst of all lives – of fighting an extended war in which too many locals see you as murderous occupiers.
Historians’ analyses of why Hitler’s Russia invasion failed carry eerie echoes of current experts’ analyses of the mistakes Vladimir Putin has made in invading Ukraine: There was poor strategic planning.. Hitler believed that the Russians would capitulate quickly after the shock of initial losses. Most important, he failed to understand the primordial power of one word –"Родина" – for Russians: They were determined to defend their Motherland at all costs.
Americans can go back further in history for what might be called our collective military memory: British troops fought George Washington’s armyThe British failure taught the American colonialists important lessons, lessons their descendants, unfortunately, would forget over time., prepared after decades of public service in the military and as our first president, warned against foreign entanglements leading to unnecessary wars.
It’s why Gen. Douglas MacArthur, two years into the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan, warned Congress: “History points out the unmistakable lesson that
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