The Russian winter (not Army) defeated the Nazis. Germans didn't use thermal body heat production (Vodka) to survive it.
I know this one. Revolutionary, 1812 and Civil War. After that the US learned to only fight small countries or wait until the enemy was half spent. Smart.
I don't agree with that assessment.1 example is The Korean war was really a war with China and far more Chinese troops were killed than Americans, 600,000 for China and 36,500 US I dont agree with many US foreign decisions but The US military has been an ass kicking machine throughout history.The only war The US ever really lost was 1812 imo.
US have never lost 100,000 troops in combat against any foreign nation,Russia was lost over 100,000 in many wars including the current one.The US would have taken Kiev in 2 weeks or less with fewer than 2500 US troop killed.
What I recall probably included total not just battle losses. The local forces had a lot of death due to disease.
Us did lose more troops in that one but they were fighting other US trained troops(Robert E Lee went to Westpoint etc ) Not the same as losing 100,000 + troops to Ukraine,Germany,France etc like the historically shitty Russian military imo