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To answer the question without reaing the other posts: If by major war you mean our country against another country or groups of countries, then no. No one can really win a war anymore. Not the way we did with the first and second world war, anyway. I find that there are so many countries with nucklear weapons that the aweful truth of self destructive deterrant should be enough to keep rational governments from doing anything as major as a war. I was surprised that we went after Iraq, but that really wan't a war. Let's say that a major internationol incodent occours. Something that sets two major poweres at odds. Let's say that someone attacks the US again. This time, we have information linking the attacks to, say, China. We accuse them of attacking us, they deny it. We get into a cold war situation. Everyone is choosing sides and pointing missles at everyone else. Then what happens? I'll tell you what won't happen; we won't attack, and neither will they. We will both do our best to discover what had happened and look for proof (unless the moronic Bush administration is still in power). We will find out that China would never, in the way the world is now, attack the US. We find out the real attack was orchestrated by an outside group. The world after nuclear war is just so aweful, that people will avoid it at all costs. That is, sane people will avoid it at al costs.
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