Some Numbers ...

 ... which are hidden.

This is a "spread" of casualties which one would expect--give and take, I am not suggesting that pastor's numbers are precise--in case of Brigade Combat Team trying to engage in any significant ground combat in Iran within two to four weeks. In other words, it will melt away. The reason is simple--US Army is not equipped (nor is a partner in Dutch Rudder propaganda of Israel's IDF) to deal with actual long-range fires and stand-off weapons due to a perverted view on warfare in general and air-defense in particular. 

This is a result of worshiping fake history and fake leaders. I will remind you, if you forgot: 

The creeping arrogance, the hubris, which would cost the American Army so dearly in Vietnam. Summing up the achievements of his troops in crushing the German counterattack of December 1944, Patton with pardonable pride claims to have “moved farther and faster and engaged more divisions in less time than any other army in the history of the United States—possibly in the history of the world... No country can stand against such an Army.” These memoirs are valuable not least in showing, however unwittingly, that a disastrous presumption of invincibility took root in the ranks of officers who led the American military after World War II.

This is from foreword to Patton's memoir. US Military doesn't learn--that's not me saying it, that's late hater of Russia and falsifier of history Richard Pipes describing what takes place:  

The United States wants to win its wars quickly and with the smallest losses in American lives… Extreme reliance on a technological superiority, characteristic of U.S. warfare, is the obverse side of America’s extreme sensitivity to its own casualties; so is indifference to the casualties inflicted on the enemy ... We have no general staff; we grant no higher degrees in “military science”; and, except for Admiral Mahan, we have produced no strategist of international repute. America has tended to rely on its insularity to protect it from aggressors, and on its unique industrial capacity to help crush its enemies once war was under way. The United States is accustomed to waging wars of its own choosing and on its own terms. It lacks an ingrained strategic tradition. In the words of one historian, Americans tend to view both military strategy and the armed forces as something to be “employed intermittently to destroy occasional and intermittent threats posed by hostile powers. 

Well, yeah. US Navy has (or had recently) an Admiral who graduated with the major in ... English Literature. But then again, Lisa Franchetti, University of Phoenix and shit. So, what happens when your opponent not only fights back tenaciously but outranges you? They call it "asymmetry"--that's the level of military "science" in the US. Nothing good. Well, with the US Secretary of War having his military education lifted from Scofield Bible and Fox News what do you expect? And don't tell me I didn't warn. I did. Now, who will answer not only for the atrocity against people of Iran but for lives of those American kids who died needlessly for a terrorist entity in Levant? 

Somebody Is Getting The Message.

It has to be understood--"near peer" moniker today applies to the US Armed Forces, not to the counterpart they have in mind. Any talk about "readiness" is useless against the background of many centuries-long continental warfare. Per The Pacific. Enough to take a look at butcher's bill issued daily in SMO--even Pacific War pales in comparison with 111,000 KIAs in over 3 years and 8 months. But even ALL US casualties in WW II on all theaters pale in comparison to SMO and VSU losses alone prorated for time and adjusted for proper projection.

The only danger to the "American way of life" is IN America. And "readiness" is not the answer--the US has no experience with such scale of continental war in new technological paradigm anyway. But it is commendable that the man makes a distinction, and it is the first step in understanding the scale of things unfolding for the US, which are of the American making precisely because nobody in the US ever experienced the REAL continental war. 

Thirty months of SMO and Russia's incredibly conservative estimates:

Pentagon people better open their military history books and look up Eastern Front in WW II, before going back to class and relearning Operational Planning and Operational Art.