#11–plus they threw in with us at Yorktown, admittedly for their own reasons. Yes, they were plenty good, took on most of Europe all at once, etc. Actually they will fight when it suits them, in the right spot, but haven’t been much help to us the last 50 years. I think that’s why we’re often mad at them–letting us do the heavy lifting.

I agree with Buddy’s point–given that most soldiers are brave enough, what does it take to grind them down into mutiny? Nations may differ but not that much overall. They can only take so much and then that’s it. But then, the Brits took similar losses in WW I and didn’t mutiny. And their generals were just as lousy.