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Over the past 45 years the most traumatic military events involving the United States have been in the Pacific theatre. Pearl Harbor and the war with Japan; Korea, in which 54,000 American military lives were lost; and Vietnam where 57,000 Americans died. Vietnam remains a central factor in American thinking about military power, especially concerning the protracted use of ground forces.1
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S. R. Foley ‘Strategic Factors in the Pacific’, US Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1985, p. 34.
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Kemp, G. (1987). US Military Power in the Pacific: Problems and Prospects: Part I. In: O’Neill, R. (eds) East Asia, the West and International Security. International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09845-3_5
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