Originally Posted by
Leon Jabachjabicz
KenV
No, you completely miss the point. The boots in Japan, Germany and Italy do not remain because of World War 2. They remain because of new threats from Russian (earlier Soviet), Chinese and N Korean threats after World War 2.
What part of the following was hard to understand?
Those boots have remained in Japan, Germany, Italy, (and in the UK, Korea, Kuwait and elsewhere) because boots on the ground are required in any limited war. And all wars after WW2 have been limited wars and will remain so for the foreseeable future. (emphasis added)
Please read what I wrote, not what you imagine I wrote.