Why is America so good at World Wars?

[gtg]

lost the Vietnam war.

[Howiester]

Is 2-0 really that impressive, no. 10-0 sure, 2-0 big deal.

Well there has only been 2 World Wars. This isn't LeBron's finals record we're talking about here.

[lolololz]

name a war youve won in the last 50 years

Dominican Civil War 1965

Invasion of Grenada 1983

Lebanese Civil War 1984

Tanker war (Iran) 1988

Invasion of Panama 1990

Gulf War 1991

****lia Civil War 1995

Bosnian War 1995

Kosovo War 1999

Libyan Civil war 2011

War on ISIL/ISIS TBH brah!

[HairyCalves]

Dominican Civil War 1965

Invasion of Grenada 1983

Lebanese Civil War 1984

Tanker war (Iran) 1988

Invasion of Panama 1990

Gulf War 1991

****lia Civil War 1995

Bosnian War 1995

Kosovo War 1999

Libyan Civil war 2011

War on ISIL/ISIS TBH brah!


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Literally not one of those wars was a win for the USA, lmao

[lolololz]

Literally not one of those wars was a win for the USA, lmao

No one got the bawls to F with us directly... so we must show others how its done.

[laser23]

United States was late to the party in ww1
Soviet Union did most of the dirty work and suffered the most casualties during ww2

United States is still undefeated tho.

[AWillis]

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[IsthisreaLife]

Well there has only been 2 World Wars. This isn't LeBron's finals record we're talking about here.

I know, so what's the big deal

[Travis99]

we spend over 500 billion a year on defense

[stasmtl]

USofA attacks from west, Germany tries to evacuate through the East straight into Mother Russia. Good night sweet Fursten.

Read a book, *******.

There are two radically different histories of WW II, the one that was actually fought, and the one where the US kicked everyone's assess. Guess which one Cold War-era classrooms were allowed to teach? Here's a hint: It's the same one Hollywood chose to film.

World War II wasn't just a clever name. It was a global conflict that included epic acts of heroism by non-Americans like the storming of Madagascar, the Battle of Westerplatte, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Kursk, the epically badass Kokoda Track, the pilots of the Polish Underground State, the details of El Alamein or the HMS Bulldog. Of course, Americans never hear about any of those unless, as in the case of the classic submarine film U 571, the characters are just straight up switched to Americans. To quote George S. Patton: "Americans love a winner," which you know because you saw Patton, the film that portrayed Field Marshal Bernard "Rommel-killer" Montgomery like a buffoon simply because he was British.

However, there is one Zangief-sized elephant in the room that America loved to leave out of conversation until the end of the Cold War: the Soviet Union. The "Great Patriotic War" as they called it was the single largest military operation in history, and home to perhaps the biggest turning-point of the war: the Battle of Stalingrad.

Understand, the Russia versus Germany part of the war wasn't just a little more important than the part the USA was involved in. It was "four times the scale" of the whole Western front, larger than all other phases of the war put together. The Soviet military suffered 8 million soldiers dead, more than 20 freaking times the number of U.S. casualties.

Sounds pretty brutal for a John Wayne movie? Try figuring in another 13.7 million dead civilians.

It's tragic how many kids in the West never heard these stories growing up. One platoon leader in the Red Army named Yakov Pavlov personally rigged a Stalingrad apartment building with enough landmines, rifles and mortars to hold off half the Nazi army. The building was under fire day and night and even had some civilians in the basement, but the fortress never fell. Pavlov himself picked off one dozen tanks from the beast.

[Trillical]

Because we have a gr8 system for war.

The young kids grow up playing call of duty, counter striker, battlefield, etc, so we dominate shooting games. Then when they reach in their late teens to early 20s they join the military from young and end up being great soldiers.

[SpicyCurrie]

But you're not too good against Canada.. (War of 1812)




Canada - 1
USA - 0

[MrGreenz]

Positioning relative to main theatres of combat
Large population
Large resource base
Profits from WW1

I wouldn`t say they are so good.

They however came off best from both world wars so I guess if you look at it from the angle of who comes out the the best obviously is the best at it then you would be right.

There were great feats achieved throughout both wars each with their own merits. However it`s hard to discredit the Germans considering what they were up agains and how close to succedding they came.

[Thisisu]

WW1 was a tie - no foreign troops in Germany

WW2 was Ultimately Won by Stalin. People ignored he helped Hitler and he was then allowed to put up the Iron Wall



USA was without question the biggest Financial winner of the 2 Wars. But has the USA accomplished much over the past 75 years with that advantage?

[Rhanor]

Because attacking countries with beta military usually results in victory.

USA spent 20% of its 3.8 trillion dollars on military last year. Thats why.

Edit: 3.8 trillion is the annual budget.

[MajorCajones]

Love America but I'm pretty sure we stayed out of ww2 for so long because we weren't sure which side was gonna come out on top and didn't want to side with the losers.

there waas some isolationism going on, people were going through/had went through the great depression and there was still baggage from WW1, a great deal changed that, stuff happened in the atlantic and the pacific nowamsayin

[aal04]

Because it profits by selling arms and then waits until the vlast minute to step in

Close to Truth, America doesnt profit, its overlords do.

[MajorCajones]

Close to Truth, America doesnt profit, its overlords do.

AANNND TBF
WW2 pulled us outta The Great Depression,
not that there werent plenty of profiteers, and still have em, which is why decade after decade we still need a boogeyman to send us into war

[Vukov]

The obvious answer is worlds biggest economy and completely invaluable due to vastness, unreachable by bombers and vast armies.

[djfuzzy]

WW II, the one where the US kicked everyone's assess.

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Exactly.

[seanb1979]

cause we have no idea what we're doing. if we don't know what we're doing, how can the enemy predict us? check and mate

you joke about this, but it was one of our advantages over the germans.. i saw quotes on it but dont remember where i saw them

[Jap1987]

Our advantage in ww2 was the soviet union.

[LiLRyan]

America is good at wars because...

They were founded on war, have been in a perpetual state of war since its beginnings.

Americas conception > slavery > spanish war > tea war > civil war > uprisings and revolts > nam, cold, and it keeps repeating

[iifymbro]

85% of German casualties happened om the eastern front.

Who do you think funded the Russians?

[chickenbroccoli]

name a war youve won in the last 50 years

War against morals

[TheCore84]

Our advantage in ww2 was the soviet union.

And by that you mean Hitler's ignorance whe it came to listening to his generals and invading way too late in the year.

[Ironmanlet]

Meh,

We need to be humble bros.

how can we brag about winning world wars when we lost ****lia, Vietnam, Beruit and eventually Iraq will be considered a loss as well.

That kind of arrogance was a huge contributing factor to losses in these areas.

If we are victorious, we need to be quiet professionals. Do the job and be done. Winning a war may be necessary, but the only aspect of it that should be celebrated is that our troops are coming home. There is nothing spectacular about demolishing people.

Been in 12 years and will continue to serve proudly until my time is up. But I won't celebrate anything I have ever done or will ever do out of necessity when it comes to war.

[TooBusyMirin]

A big part was the military technology the US received from Great Britain as part of the lend-lease act. Mainly the radar that allowed the US to detect and therefore destroy German uboats allowing safe transport between the US and Britain. And also code breaking ability that led to the US decoding Japan's attack on midway allowing them to properly counter and destroy the Japanese aircraft carriers.

Also luck that their aircraft carriers were not at Pearl Harbor at the time of attack.

[JakeB27]

The Russians are the true alphas of ww2. Just lol at America taking all the credit.

I forgot the correct term for it, but it's scary to think about some of the tactics Russia used. Sending wave after wave of men to get killed only to gain the slightest amount of ground on the Germans until they finally got close enough to kill them. I always gets the feels when thinking about it

[BradKemp]

men gave their lives so we could misc