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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
No. I don't think our population is able to cohere to a sufficient extent to win a major war. This would be due mainly to the manner in which we are influenced by the divisive and corrosive power of contemporary media.
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Due partly perhaps, but not mainly.
I suspect that modern societies are simply unable to sustain, to
accept, the kinds of sacrificies that would result from a major war.
Witness the lengths the Pentagon went to prevent publication of pictures of American coffins returning from Iraq. And that was only when casualties stood in the hundreds. The Vietnam war was lost as much "at home" as it was on the battlefield, and one of the main reasons for this was 40,000 American deaths.
I just don't think America, or any nation other than perhaps Russia or China, has the
stomach for war anymore.
Mr Mephisto