re: Do you ever see war fought in American soil?

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Japs occupied some of the Aleutian Islands

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That's where my Dad served.

Read his location, Klark and got it right the first time.
Sorry if you are sensitive about these matters...

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Japs occupied some of the Aleutian Islands. We had to force them out.

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Alaska wasn't a state yet. No difference in Japan invading the Philippines as far as the topic of this thread is concerned.

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Not talking isolated attacks (Pearl Harbor, 9/11). Talking a full on battle fought overhead or on mainland soil where we are being invaded?

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If you're talking about an actual, traditional military force attempting to seize soil, then extremely doubtful.

Mainland, we have 2 borders. Canada and Mexico. Mexico is terrified of the retaliation, and Canada is practically a Northern state for military purposes, so both those are no-go's. An invasion of either Canada or Mexico by an outside power would be enough to provoke us to mobilize, occupy those lands, and the battles would be there, not on US soil.

We have 2 states outside the mainland: Alaska and Hawaii. Hawaii is the more isolated of the two, could potentially be more vulnerable to an invasion or at least blockade. You have to assume we'd hit back extremely hard at the other power's mainland if that happened- and if there's actual boots on the ground in Hawaii, we likely level the other power's capital in a week.
Alaska, gets a bit more interesting. Access across the Bering Strait from East Russia, maybe grab an unoccupied Aleutian Island... would provoke international incident, and heavy threats. Hitting the actual, populated main area would again trigger total war.

I think any attack on an actual state would result in total war, in which we destroy (or attempt to) the opposing power, bomb their capitals, and seek to wipe out any industrial and military resources they have, and force a regime change.

There's only 1-2 other nations that conceivably attempt an attack on Hawaii or Alaska, none that would dare hit the mainland .... and that will be the case for generations going forward. WE won't "see" that ever happening. Maybe a few hundred years from now, it could be possible.