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Iran is 'confident' it could counter a U.S. ground invasion, foreign minister says
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Operation Iraqi freedom ended in a route so successful that the tanks had to stop to allow logistics to catch up. They went from initial invasion to Baghdad falling within like 20 days.
Also the Americans were pretty pivotal in the D-Day landings that ended up with the liberation of Europe.
They also pushed the North Koreans from the Pusan Perimeter in the south east pretty much all the way back to the Chinese border during the Korean war after the North Koreans invaded the south. Before the Chinese got involved of course and pushed the Americans back down to the 38th parallel at obscene expense.
There's probably more
Arguably, WW2 is the last war the USA won, and they only won that one by swooping in at a time when the Nazis were already battered and at the edge of strategic defeat. The Korean war was a stalemate, and the second gulf war ended in a quagmire and a withdrawal. The USA is great at taking territory, terrible at holding it and doing counterinsurgency. They'll win the invasion, but lose the war.
They won because the highly motivated Russians were quickly moving toward them from the East, forcing the Germans to split their army into two different meat-grinder fronts.
America did not win the war, it was very much a product of the Alliance, assisted by strong rebel resistance.
i don't disagree. the question was about invading though, not holding land.
And from a military perspective they can hold land for as long as they want.
They didn't leave Afghanistan because they ran out of bullets/money/warm bodies to throw at it.
They left Afghanistan because they ran out of political capital
political capital (or morale) is just as, if not more, important than bullets or money. And somehow, despite decades and decades of failures, the US empire fails to understand that
Iraq - had a lot of help from allies
D-day - had a lot of help from allies
Korea - had a lot of help from allies
Now do all the wars where the USA got their ass kicked. Especially the ones they fought by themselves. Americans are extremely bad at wars - historical fact.
Also Korea not exactly a victory.
It's because our wars are really about Military Profiteering, not winning. We actually want to keep it going as long as possible. War is good for the economy.
The wars where we have only been very successful at are the ones that take place in the Americas itself or fighting each other lol.
The total coalition ground forces was 200,000. of those 150,000 were American and the rest (by and large) were british relying on American logistics and intelligence.
if 75% of the invading force is American, you can just say you were invaded by Americans
The Americans turned the tide of the Korean war single handedly. the only other ones fighting on their side were the south koreans who had just been pushed all the way down to the south east. Before china turned the tide back again of course.
The Americans comprised about half of the D-Day troops, fighting alongside the British (and a smaller canadian force) whos expeditionary force had been pushed back to Dunkirk before evacuating the continent entirely. The Americans also turned the tide here as much as i, a brit, hates to admit it
The war lasted nearly a decade. Come on bro.
Oh so they were doing great up until a real military joined? Not exactly high praise.
Toppling Saddams government is the war OP is talking about which went by very fast. The insurgency that came after (what you are talking about) because Bush’s admin mismanaged the whole thing by disbanding all government employees and the Iraqi army. Which was a bad idea because occupying a country with an incredibly high gun ownership rate and a bunch of unemployed soldiers with nothing else to lose was always going to be recipe for disaster. All of would not have happened if they had kept the Ba’athist government intact. It was all very dumb and stupid just like this new Iran war is.
It's all the same war, I see no reason to separate those parts.
You could say it was that initial operation/invasion. No need to get into semantics. The original goal of the war was to topple Saddam and it succeeded at that, but failed at everything after and became a prolonged nation building war.