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Although the game was a MASSIVE let down in terms of how it did not show Reach at full scale war, there was one going on even if we did not see it.
You could have put 5,000 spartans of any kind on the surface, it wouldn't have stopped that planet from being glassed and all UNSC assets destroyed. The kind of battles that went on, and what we SHOULD have seen but didn't, would have been between hundreds of thousands of soldiers on each side slaughtering each other. Hundreds of tanks, falcons, pelicans warring banshees, spirits and phantoms.
Considering the size of the invasion force, the spartans would be utterly useless in a wide scale battle. Sure, they would rack up massive kill numbers, but against that many troops, it wouldn't last long.
Spartans were created for the singular purpose of being a small, specialised team that can infiltrate the enemy. They were trained and built up to be stealthy and lethal. The reason for this is even a Spartan won't make a huge difference in an all out war on the battlefield. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who would have died would have been the ones protecting the colonies from ground invasions, not the Spartans. They were off INFILTRATING and nuking covvie fleets.