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* Popular belief is that this has been done frequently by the Soviet Army, although both professional and armchair historians question how much of this is truth and how much is image and propaganda.
** The Soviet Union did have "punishment units" (also known as "prison battalions"), in which convicted (or otherwise considered even more disposable) people were assigned to lead attacks, and clear minefields by marching through them.
** Another thing the Soviets did was to replace losses by mass impressment along the way. In fact, the notorious atrocities in Berlin were largely the responsibility of these forces, many of whom were traumatized and some of whom were criminals to begin with. The Russian vanguard behaved more or less professionally and while they treated the population roughly and [[Plunder|helped themselves to goodies]], the epidemic of gang rape was more the responsibility of troops to the
** Their army recruitment slogan at the time was "Die For Russia".
*** This is especially true in Winter War 1939-1940. The Soviets attacked against the Finnish positions as [[Cannon Fodder|human waves]], with the advice ''if you don't have a rifle, pick one from your fallen comrade''. The Finnish machine-gunners mowed them down like grass; it often happened that the Finns had to pull off their [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|machine-gunners because of nervous breakdown from such butchery]].
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**For instance in the beginning of the [[World War 2|Pacific War]]Japan was unquestionably superior in quality(it was also superior in material actually available but more was waiting to come on line for the Allies). They won a number of spectacular victories. In late 1942 through 1943 the odds were even but the Allies were getting better in both quality and quanity. And after that the Allies pretty much had the whip hand.
* In the Strategic Bombing Campaign over Europe in [[World War 2]] the US Eighth Air Force won by finally figuring out that trying to hit a "pinpoint" target from a heavy bomber was like trying to hit a nearby telephone line from a passing subway train by throwing a golf ball while being hit on the head with a golf club (and in any case the bomb was likely to land on some poor schmuck which is one reason they headed for cities where there was a multiplicity of poor schmucks). In any event tactics were changed to make the bombers the bait and provoke as many dogfights as possible on the assumption that Germans would run out of planes and pilots first.
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