casualties, and become more comfortable with the sheer violence of modern combined arms battle. As a result, we may need to adjust our cultural values to understand the verities and changes in the nature of conventional operations since 1945, come to grips with the impact of significant U.S. Our Army today may not be fully ready to display this type of resilience or win in this type of combat. Army unit, in its first major combat against a veteran opponent in which it would lose five thousand soldiers and then launch a series of counterattacks, could be a textbook definition of resilience. Army’s II Corps began the counteroffensive that would destroy the vaunted Panzergruppe Afrika (formerly known as the Afrika Korps) and would net several hundred thousand German and Italian prisoners of war. Two days after the losses at Sidi Bou Zid and Kasserine Pass, the 1st Armored Division and other elements of the U.S. During the 1943 battles of Sidi Bou Zid and Kasserine Pass in World War II, 5,000 American Soldiers were killed over the course of just 10 days during the first three days of fighting the Army lost Soldiers at a rate of 1,333 per day. Historically, battlefields in large-scale combat operations have been more chaotic, intense, and highly destructive than those the Army has experienced in the past decades.

Large-scale combat operations are at the far right of the conflict continuum and associated with war. Soldiers of Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division fire a 37 mm gun through the Argonne Forest in the fall of 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, where American soldiers fought their most difficult battle in World War I and proved that the American Army had come of age.

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