he did bring up that crippled and immobile Zs were an issue.
You can see them, no problem. easy to take out and you know you got them.
You start going through the grass or mud and one is laying there in wait and you step on it, then it's a problem.
you start going through ruins, wreckage and...
After reading through this so far, I'm greatly reminded of the old 1815: Andy and Leo's Excellent Adventure map game we had.
We ended up with Bonapartist Mexico, Haiti, Austria-Italy, and a bit of messing around in Brazil and China, though.
Still good show.
By that logic the USA should have beaten Vietnam since we dropped 7 million bombs on them.
If you want to talk about strategy and material, you might need to a bit more than just play a couple of rounds of Axis and Allies and watch Patton.
Jagger thought Bombing the lave flow might help either slow or redirect the lava.
20 bombs were dropped, one was a dude, five hit and the rest missed.
All in all it did nothing.
Jagger thought it was a success, but everyone else doubted it...
Eisenhower was a military advisor and actively helping them develop their army.
Patton...wasn't.
So yes, Eisenhower did get something out of his time in Asia.
He spend most of his time writing about how the Japanese would attack Pearl and draft up plans to intern the Japanese.
The closest he got to seeing Combat in the Pacific was ordering them to bomb a lava flow.
Calling that "experience in the pacific" is like saying you're totally qualified to...
Why though?
"Hey, someone Said there's gold here, let's sent a bunch of people to chase a rumor"?
Even assuming they send that many people, how much are still going to be alive when they actually reach the Americas?