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Why did the Eastern Front and the Pacific see brutality unlike the Western Front?
I'll leave out all of the "he is a Russian/CIA/NSA/Mossad/MSS/Big Fridge asset!!!" because he might be, but that is entirely besides the point and can't be proven
1/ By September of 1847, the Armies young United States were closing in on the capital of the descendants of the Conquistadors in Mexico City. 
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Battleships stopped being relevant not because of the rise of airplanes, but because 1) the limitations of their offensive firepower and 2) only one navy could afford them, and their enemy fielded none. There were to be no Jutlands in WW3
1/ There are many myths of the GWOT, one of which was that the United States always enjoyed tactical superiority over its enemies. While in general this was certainly true, there were times and places where the mountains and valleys of eastern Afghanistan belied this myth. 
Left 2 of 4 vehicles on the OP, and drove the 4 miles down there. Got to the IP outpost, and it was clear something was up. Lights were out, the IP were not at the road checkpoint and there was a shot up empty car parked in front. 
A gunfight is a mind altering thing. Surviving a close quarters gunfight is an experience that defies description, but one thing is certain: you will not be thinking clearly after. 
Easterners lack the strength and the discipline to come straight a prepared enemy, which is fine, it isn't a judgement, it is just a different, less decisive style. They lack the mentality to recognize the fastest way to win a battle is to put your spear through a face. 
1/ First, some ground rules. I don’t care about your globohomo conspiracy theories. I don’t care who is right or wrong. I don’t care that the illuminati and the lizard people are secretly controlling Zelensky. This is analysis. Do some peyote and tell your dog. They might like it 
You see, the some insurgent groups had started to use passive infrared sensors as triggers, this made side attacks more deadly, especially with Shia EFPs which cut through the lightly armored HMMWV's like a hot knife through butter. 
1/ We remember the Western Front of the First World War as a war of trenches and attrition, of artillery and gas. But as three great armies bore down on one another in the summer of 1914 on the fields of Belgium, it was very much a war of maneuver.
The discussion comes down to two questions. 
2/ In 1241, the Mongols were the dominant military power in the world, stretching from Korea in the East to the very borders of modern Europe. With the defeat of the every nation to the east, only two states, Hungary and Poland stood between the Mongols and Western Europe. 
Both are fine, this isn’t making fun of Group 1. Lots of good dudes in that group, veterans and non. 
2/ We all know Alexander the Great. Macedonian, good general, got it. Moving on. What you might not know is that Alexander faced not one, but two mutinies from his Macedonian troops. Most famously at Opis in 324 BC, but also two years earlier on the banks of the Hyphasis River. 
On the scale of bad, a pickpocket is more common than a carjacking which is more common than nuclear apocalypse. 
1 Many GWOT veterans are unique in the pantheon of American veterans. In most American wars a soldier went off to fight, and then came home and often stayed home when his time was done. This allowed veterans to move on with their lives, to build something new and to live. 