re: #118 ckkatz

On the relevance of The Infantry, I think that there are several different things going on at the same time which are obscuring the question.

1. The advent of nuclear weapons

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2. Professional militaries

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3. The infantry has become a bit more technical

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4. The role of the infantry has not changed

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In fighting recent insurgencies, the US has generally relied on our client states to provide the infantry and take the resultant heavy casualties.

So if everybody does 2 years of service, 18 months will be school.

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