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Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They didn't give us a run for our money, we mowed them down like grass. Tactical victory, after tactical victory. The Viet Cong had 10x as many combat deaths as the USA. Ultimately it was an unwinnable conflict in the strategic sense, because the rules of engagement prevented NATO from mistreating civilians, or routing enemy forces in their havens in neighboring countries without black ops. Similar to our current conflict in Afghanistan, we have complete force superiority. We, at this moment, have the power to round up every Afghan man, woman, and child, and kill them. That would end the conflict. The issue of win vs. no-win lies in the rules of engagement, not in the power of our military machine.

Similarly, the American revolution was a battle more against British willpower than British military might. We made it an expensive war on an already debt-laden empire. It just wasn't worth it for them to try and lock down what was only a marginally profitable set of colonies compared to their holdings in India and elsewhere.

Nazi Germany? No, the Jews would have gone against the ~entirety~ of the Nazi war machine, who had no rules of engagement precluding the massacre of men, women and children. No amount of assault rifles or Jewish survivalist rednecks would have changed that outcome, sorry.

You shut your mouth. George Washington rode his unicorn of justice straight to the throne of King Hitler and snatched America away from those dirty Viet Cong.