See - the Sherman losses (never mind those of the T-34). (Though, there's an argument to be made a Sherman successor could have been ready by 1944 if the Western Allied command's view of hadn't been warped by fighting one of the worst-supplied Axis formations for so long in North Africa.)

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The US lost 13 Shermans in Europe every day from D-Day to V-Day. Some people still get angry when those like Belton Cooper who had to pick out the dead bodies from all the wrecks dared to suggest that might have been avoidable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western...

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Nothing like operational paralysis because the enemy has lethal deterrence. We used to throw people on to beaches by the thousands to get mowed down in the hopes that a few of them might reach a bunker. Now look at us.

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GWOT brain makes Americans think "will take heavy casualties" means "obsolete." Not how big boy war works!

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ARCHIE: We should flood the earth! MAXIE: No, we should drain the oceans! GIOVANNI: Gentlemen, please. Surely either plan can secure us a prince's ransom. ARCHIE: Wait, you think we ain't for real? MAXIE: Bro, I deadass think he think we playing. ARCHIE: Fuck off to Kanto, you dirty Italian.

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