re: If the USA became involved in a major military conflict.

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Say a direct war with Russia or China or even if WW III broke out. Would the present day in their prime generation step up.

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Wouldn’t need to. That’s the whole point of guided misses, drones, and of course nukes. Plus whatever other secret tech the military has.

Perhaps, f they could join the navy and self identify as a dolphin

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Plus whatever other secret tech the military has.

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America spends over 50% of its yearly budget on military and defense spending, which is more than the next 8 highest spending countries combined.

We definitely have some technological advances we're sitting on in case a worst case scenario breaks out.

That helicopter that crashed going to kill Bin Ladin technically didn't exist. The world didn't think that technology existed. But the US government had already developed, tested, manufactured, trained, and used it.

That should tell you something.

Exactly. They had things like GPS and touch screens decades before anyone else.

This isn’t the early to mid 1900s anymore. The military doesn’t need a massive as frick army anymore because of advanced tech.

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Would the present day in their prime generation step up. In a similar way as the "greatest generation" did

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well considering the vast majority of the current generation would be wiped out within the first 5 minutes of the conflict and that our human society would be thrown back to the stone ages....it may be a little more difficult to respond to the conflict

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Exactly. They had things like GPS and touch screens decades before anyone else. This isn’t the early to mid 1900s anymore. The military doesn’t need a massive as frick army anymore because of advanced tech.

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You don’t know what the future holds, and I’d be cautious of placing too much faith in technology to win wars as boots on the ground are the only real way to still win wars, and truthfully we are always only about 1 or 2 EMP’s from going back to the Stone Age.

It's not like we'd have troops marching through enemy territory getting picked off in record numbers.
I'd hope a war now would involve more air strikes, drones, long range weapons, etc. that will keep the humans more out of harm's way.

Would they even have time to step up before the nukes start flying?

People VASTLY underestimate the unification of WWII. Hitler was a legitaimate threat to take over the world. If China and Russia rolled into Western Europe and started taking over countries and exterminating a populous, people would absolutely sign up to go to war.

Russia taking over a pennisula? Not so much.

There will never be another conventional world war. Technological advances guarantees that, as already mentioned by several posters.

We are far ahead of everyone else in the development of war technology. No one, even China with their vast numbers, would risk a conventional war with us today. During the Korean War they threw their millions of soldiers at us but still had to settle for a draw. And that was in their backyard.

With the added deterrence of nuclear weapons, where again the U.S. is technologically superior, I just can't see anyone risking a full scale war with us.