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Originally Posted by pedro padilla
when you talk of any major global conflict breaking out among the so called superpowers, the overwhelming odds are that one of these wackos, ours or theirs, is going to pull out the ace in his hand. right now, the US military is spread so thin that any new action will necessitate invoking the draft. as has been shown pretty recently, the entire arsenal sans our nukes and pretty much all our troops has not quite cut it. *snip*
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In a hypothetical "major war" The U.S. would not try to eliminate collateral damage, and would presumably use everything it took, without nuclear/chem/bio weapons. The U.S. military is far better equipped and trained to fight offensively than it is to "peacekeep." We intentionally tried not to destroy infrastucture, and conquered a country that had had ample time to prepare for the invasion in a few days. In falluhja, we tried not to kill too many people for political reasons.
While Ustwo may have been too pithy, he had a point. Think back to 9/11. Now imagine that it had been an attack coordinated by N. Korea, Iran, and Iraq, and those nations had proudly taken credit for it, declared war on the U.S., and asked nations around the world to join in. The entire country would be behind it, and Congress would declare war, and the U.S. military could go about what it was equipped and trained and designed to do. The U.S. has a greater navy and Air force than the rest of the planet combined, and in a situation like that could use this advantage to it's full effect, probably first eliminating N. Korea's "possible" nuclear capability without trying to prevent civilian casualties with limited smart bomb strikes.
In an all out war with China over taiwan, nuclear possibilities are far more complex and scary, but we could enforce a strict naval and air blockade that could prevent China from continuing.
Just my thoughts.