re: USA has lost its last two major wars

We should have raped that country for every god damned mineral they had. F’em

USA can easily win a true war.

It's the "morals" of war and media stirring up the populace that cripples us.

Traditional warfare is a thing of the past. Cyber warfare, drones, biological warfare, and nuclear deterrence is the way of the future.

The more and more technology advances....the less we have to worry about going to shithole 3rd world countries to fight "The war on terror".

Our technology, intelligence, and surveillance is much more advanced than it was in 2001.

We have to stop wasting our resources on wars with 3rd world countries so we can keep up with China.

China is the new enemy.

Exactly. frick em. We should have left the moment Bin Laden was killed.

Did the US really lose Vietnam? Look at it today.

Seems the only way to actually win a war nowadays would be to rain down nukes, but that would be pretty bad for everyone. Especially if that war was with another nuclear power or some country with close ties to a nuclear power.

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I’ve actually read that during the surrender ceremony the American general stated we never lost a battle to the north Vietnamese. Their leader responded, and yet you’re the one leaving the vanquished.

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There was no surrender ceremony.

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We kicked the ever living shite out of the Iraqis and we owned Afghanistan until the American people lost the will to fight.

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We were not even fighting in Afghanistan any more. The last American KIA in Afghanistan was February of last year. we’d moved on to advisory and peacekeeping. Last year the cost of being in Afghanistan made up a whopping 1% of the national budget.

The truth is the Afghan Army for the past several years had shouldered the majority of the fighting and the last 5-6 years virtually all the fighting on the ground. Look at the casualty rates year by year:
American casualties by month and year

Research by Brown University estimates losses in the Afghan security forces at 69,000

The last time the US monthly casualty total was even in double digits was June 2014 when 13 servicemen died.

So the truth of Afghanistan was is has not been a “forever war” for the US. The Afghan Army was doing the fighting and were waging the type of war we trained them to fight, namely a combined arms land/air war where ground units could and did rely on air support for both combat and logistics needs. When Biden pulled eveyone out he also took the civilian contractors who maintained the Afgan air assets. Suddenly the Afghan army that has been fighting for years found it’s main ally was abandoning them and worse yet crippling their air assets. This is why the Afghan army collapsed in sudden fashion.

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We kicked the ever living shite out of the Iraqis

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That’s like bragging ab LSU beating the shite out of Southeastern in football

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We have to stop wasting our resources on wars with 3rd world countries so we can keep up with China

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What about the wars in our 3rd World cities, Kabul might be safer than Chicago or New Orleans in a few weeks or sooner.