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Andrew P. Hunter: “It was a very short war because the United States has overwhelming force, and that was the point that I am getting to…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1995
It was a very short war because the United States has overwhelming force, and that was the point that I am getting to, that you reap a couple of benefits from having a vastly superior force. One is that you close the war down quickly by winning with overwhelming force, but the second is you do not bring a lot of young Americans back in body bags, and it was projected that we could have lost 40,000 people in Desert Storm, but because we were so successful in building enough weapon systems in the 1980s, like the M-1 tank, the Apache helicopter, the Patriot missile system, we were able to win quickly, and that saved thousands of Americans' lives.
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Andrew P. Hunter
Illinois
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the benefits of military superiority during a debate on U.S. military actions.

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