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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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Is there a country they invaded that wasn't able to counter their ground assault? All Americans have is their planes and bombs, they can't win a ground invasion.
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.