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Are you serious??? In 24h!! If you exclude nukes, they havent got the power to fight everyone.. And no , im not speaking only about the Marines. And i wouldnt call Marines monster in size.. And i think they have waken up every thing they have for Iraq, Army reserves and National Guard. Do they have some secret troops we dont know about? All services combined (and reserves) they have max little over 2.000000 men. Offcourse they have big potential but so does EU, in theory. Reality is that they would have to start conscriptions to get the extra men. And public opinion doesnt support that. US is such a mix cultures and ideas that the unity isnt there. It isnt as homogenous society as it was in ww2. Even then they needed Pearl Harbor to sell the war to the people. Thinking back to New Orleans, they could even have a nother civil war someday. They are going to have serious difficulties with their economy, everyone knows it. http://nationalpriorities.org/index....per&Itemid=182 Many countries are going to institute back concription. It must be a handicap for a country of size and interests like Britain to have less men trained for war than Finland. It limits your politics for sure. When the conflict comes you need to start building it up again, and it doesnt happen in 24h.
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Yes logically I was speaking in figurative terms, it's obvious that in 24 hours they would do nothing essential
But the point of the example is that like in WW2 US started with a relative small army and then by 1945 they had a massive army that could crush almost any other in the world.
True modern warfare needs a special training and true the US public opinion would not see with good eyes to engage in a war for futile reasons, but if and when the US decides to commit 100% to a war, I would certainly not want to be in his enemy's skin :hmm: