No, the American army (including the stupid Marine Corps) does not have 5% of the balls of either the German or Soviet army in WW2. It could not even begin to cope with the conditions and casualties that those armies took. It will just continue to take low casualties and expend massive quantities of money and resources, without dealing with the resistance, until America's will breaks and it brings its army home.

Speaking as one who has been trained in tactics to field command level, I would like to make a few observations about the military situation in Iraq.
An appreciation of the US military situation in Iraq can lead to only one conclusion: the war has been lost.
The time is long overdue to withdraw, while the US can leave in good order.
If the US remains, the point will be reached at which the Stalingrad comparison will become valid.
The US military will be an isolated force surrounded by the enemy in a hostile land.
At that point, the only option will be a mass breakout and a drive to the ocean (ignoring national borders) in the hope that those who survive the breakout will be plucked from the beach by the US fleet.
Most American equipment will be abandoned along the way, because the vehicles will simply run out of fuel. This applies especially to the Abrhams tank, which I consider to be too big, too thirsty and of dubious benefit in the Iraqi situation. Without a huge and secure supply system, this tank will turn into an expensive piece of scrap metal. Once the fuel in the road tankers that accompany them has been exhausted, the tanks will be abandoned and the crews will become infantry on a long walk to the coast.
For those who doubt this, remember what happened to the German panzers when they ran out of fuel after what has been called the Battle of the Bulge.
As the army told that idiot Rumsfeld at the outset, they needed twice the number of men that they were given to achieve a successful occupation of Iraq.
This sort of debacle is what happens when a civilian (who is not qualified to even have an opinion about matters military) is given command over the military.
The situation in Iraq has deteriorated to the point that everything outside the Green Zone is a no-go area and even in the Green Zone there are daily mortar and rocket attacks.
Patrols are attacked daily by an enemy that is often unseen and has the support of the people.
Because of the stupidity and brutalilty of individual US soldiers, the minds of the Iraqi people have been turned against the US military presence. These crimes against the Iraqi civilian population are the intended consequences of the tactics used by the Iraqi resistance. The Iraqi resistance has planned and executed its campaign almost perfectly. Their actions have been intended to create and fuel a feeling of impotence and rage within the US soldiers; and to provoke them to seek revenge by committing crimes against whomever may be unfortunate enough to stray across their path. The Iraqi resistance wants US soldiers to do exactly what they have been provoked into doing (raping, murdering, torturing), but the US soldiers are too stupid to understand that.
When the Americans arrived most Iraqis greeted them as liberators.
Today, about 80 per cent of Iraqis support the guerillas who are killing Americans every day.
America needs to get out now and let the Iraqis have the internal bloodbath that will be necessary to sort out the power struggle within their country.
That, of course, will not happen, because the real US agenda is to secure the borders of Itzalie.

32 Italians have been killed since '03; country once had 3,000 troops in Iraq

NASSIRIYA, Iraq - Italy pulled its last remaining troops out of Iraq on Friday, lowering the tricolor flag at its base in the south of a country where 32 of its soldiers have died since the contingent arrived in June 2003.

Defense Minister Arturo Parisi read out the names of each of the Italian fallen, including secret serviceman Nicola Calipari who was shot dead by U.S. soldiers in March 2005 as he escorted a freed hostage to Baghdad airport.

“Your sacrifice has not been in vain,” Parisi said of the military dead. “We will always remember you.”

Under former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a close ally of President Bush, Italy deployed the fourth largest contingent in the “coalition of the willing” in Iraq, around 3,000 soldiers, based in the south of the country.

But the mission was widely unpopular in Italy and opposition leader Romano Prodi said if elected he would pull the troops out by the end of the year. Prodi won a close-run election in April.

Italy, which had only 44 soldiers remaining in Nassiriya on Friday, hands control of the area to Australian troops.

“We have rendered Dhi Qar province more stable and secure,” Gen. Carmine De Pascale said. “The authorities are holding and socio-economic conditions have improved visibly.”

In November 2003, 17 Italian military and two Italian civilians were killed by a suicide attack using a fuel tanker at their base, an incident that turned public opinion in Italy even more against the country’s involvement in the war.