With the exception of the Gulf War, America hasn’t been able to win one since WWII. America’s so confident in the tech it’s developed that its strategists can’t figure out an end game to any conflict they’ve dragged the military into. Dumping money into the defense industry isn’t the same as having an effective fighting force if its soldiers are demoralized with systemic neglect and shit pay. Sure we can carpet bomb the shit out of cities and place defensive points around oil wells, but that only makes the natives switch to guerilla tactics that can be very difficult to detect or counter.
By those metrics you would say the U.S. lost to Japan in WW2 then right? The U.S. hasn’t faught a war to occupy land in a long time. Remember when they created a deck of cards with 52 faces on it when attacking Iraq and then killed 48 of them, they never wanted to occupy and inhabit Iraq, they wanted to make a point, and they did. Financially it was “huge” yet didn’t so much as hurt the U.S. economy in a notable way (less than 2.5% income) Wealth distribution is/was a much bigger issue like many countries.
With the exception of the Gulf War, America hasn’t been able to win one since WWII. America’s so confident in the tech it’s developed that its strategists can’t figure out an end game to any conflict they’ve dragged the military into. Dumping money into the defense industry isn’t the same as having an effective fighting force if its soldiers are demoralized with systemic neglect and shit pay. Sure we can carpet bomb the shit out of cities and place defensive points around oil wells, but that only makes the natives switch to guerilla tactics that can be very difficult to detect or counter.
By those metrics you would say the U.S. lost to Japan in WW2 then right? The U.S. hasn’t faught a war to occupy land in a long time. Remember when they created a deck of cards with 52 faces on it when attacking Iraq and then killed 48 of them, they never wanted to occupy and inhabit Iraq, they wanted to make a point, and they did. Financially it was “huge” yet didn’t so much as hurt the U.S. economy in a notable way (less than 2.5% income) Wealth distribution is/was a much bigger issue like many countries.