The Allies constantly lost strategic pieces of real estate and frittered away elite forces trying to gain useless, oft-untakable objectives.

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However, while real estate was a strategic goal, the most immediate tactical goals were the destructions of objects, such as humans.

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Most of the islands that marines had fought over and secured had been jungle horrors, infested by disease and rot, or sun-scorched coral outcroppings, use-less as real estate and, in strategic terms, scarcely worth conquering, much less destroying thousands of American lives to capture.

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