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[onyxhawke]

It always pays to study your history, I've been heard to mutter that those who don't learn their history are doomed to keep stepping in it. There are less charitable and polite versions, but the point stand. It is sometimes easier to project the future based on past events. A conversation with several friends about the possibility of a certain highly populated nation invading a nearby sparsely populated one and the values of both quantity and quality brought this video:
(note crude language, and STTOS level graphics)

And mention of the battle for the Philippines.

True, the video has one or two deviations from reality, and the Marianas Turkey Shoot won't have any exact analogues in anyones fiction, but both do provide food for thought.