[Ryzorian]

The casualty rate then wasn't really high either, because those muskets weren't very acurate. The main fight happened during the bayonet charge. The US fought gorrila style most of the war. However, they had to defeat the British Army on the field, on their terms, if they wanted to get legitmate help from France.

If you can't beat a world power's professional army, on thier terms, you aint nothing as a country. It's allways been that way geopolitcally, the US wasn't respected for decades until they could proove they belonged with the other powers by beating one. The Spainish American war was the big one in that reguard. Japan had thier break out moment in the Russian war of 1904.

The US didn't rape half of Vietnam, that's an outright lie. They may have had problems, but the whole army wasn't pillageing as an orcastrated action through the government like Russia was, or Germany for that matter, cause they did it as well. It's common knowledge that if you want to surrender to someone, your best option is America, cause your least likely to be massacred than if anyone else caught you. Japanese prisoners of war can attest to this.

This whole thing is simple, Russia made a deal with Germany and Germany betrayed them, leaveing Russia with it's arse in the air. Russia spent the majority of it's youth and several years trying to regain what Germany took in 4 months. Yet with out the American support that Russia willingly recieved, it's debateable if they could have done it in that time span, if at all.

I do agree that the fighting between Germany and Russia was bitter and hateful, wich is dramtically different from the fighting between Germany and the US, wich fought more along the traditional lines. I would suggest Russia and Germany reguarded each other the same way Japan and the US did at that time, and the fighting represented that.