While there was some good to come out of this namely removing a rogue dictator who created death and chaos in the entire region , here we are two decades later with no clear-cut answer for if this effort was worth the cost. Forever known as one of the most awful conflicts in American history, the renowned invasion of Korea , marks another military action without much resolve. Arguably, the best thing to come out of this ugly event was the beloved MASH unit!
How many countries has the US invaded? Much like Iraq and Kuwait were under a reign of terror from a crazed dictator, two words explain the US invasion of Panama - Manuel Noriega. For countries under this type of oppression, maybe the answer is not enough countries! Next question? Spain eventually cedes East Florida to the US. War is narrowly averted. Marines land and set fire to the city. A naval ship takes up position at Newchwang. The US builds a major naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
A year occupation of the country follows. John J. Pershing crosses the Texas border and penetrates several hundred miles into Mexican territory.
Eventually reinforced to over 11, officers and men. Beginning of a year occupation. Read More Vietnam Financial and materiel support for colonial French military operations, leads eventually to direct US military involvement. Castello Branco takes power. Full-scale war, lasting for ten years.
Suharto to power. Intensive bombing for seven years along border with Vietnam. In modern times, the high peaks negate the advantage of armor and tanks, just as it negated the advantage of heavy cavalry in earlier times.
The United States is a viable fighting force in Afghanistan because of its logistical advantage. Where the US can get supplies and troops in and out relatively easily, the attacking British in had a much less reliable system.
That's why only one man of 16, troops and camp followers returned. The most important reason no one can conquer Afghanistan is because any invader has to completely subdue the population.
The whole population. And these people are as diverse as it gets. Even after 20 years in the country, many Americans wouldn't pick up on the fact that one of those ethnic groups I just mentioned is actually a rice dish.
Put aside Taliban or Mujaheddin loyalty for a moment and imagine the life of a regular Afghan man. Their clan, their tribe, their unit, their sheikh, their ethnicity, their religion, maybe their provincial or central government? And when you do take into account their loyalties to extremist groups, you have to factor in the group, that unit, and the shadow government. That's 12 potential loyalties right there. Imagine trying to subdue 34 million of them, because you have to if you invade Afghanistan.
Defeating those people in pitched battles didn't work, ask the British. Massacring them also didn't work, ask the Soviets. The American nation-building strategy isn't coming along either. Did your invading army plan on fighting one billion people?
Because that is what is likely to happen invading China. The most populous country in the world now boasts 1. For the uninitiated or bad at math or both , that means they have almost the entire population of the United States plus a billion.
Having written these wargaming posts for a few years now, I know that many will ask me to consider that this doesn't mean China has a skilled or fearsome force of ground troops and that all they've ever tactically perfected on a modern battlefield is human-wave attacks. While these one billion Chinese people likely don't have a their own arms, it wouldn't take long for the planned central bureaucracy to start handing out weapons to form a unified front against an invader.
There's an old US military saying: If it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid. It may sound like a throwing a few million soldiers at an invader is stupid, but it's quite the human wave and it will likely work. So even if the numbers of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir are repeated, and it takes 10 Chinese divisions to repel one Marine Division, the Marines will need to send 25 divisions just to establish a beachhead.
The fun doesn't stop just because the invader made it ashore. China is as massive as the United States, with a diverse climate and diverse geographical features. It's surrounded by extreme weather and oceans on all sides, so invaders will have to be prepared for the impassable Gobi Desert and the jungles of Southeast Asia, not to mention the mountainous, snowy Himalayan regions which will make air support difficult. Paul Rudd had the best reaction when he was named sexiest man alive.
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