Should Iran Be Allowed To Enrich Uranium? ...POLL...

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Originally Posted by Hitman

Emmmm.....I think that the US have the resources to start & probably win (Unlike Germany, who failed two times in the attempt) a 3rd world war all by themselves if needed. You are basically looking at the current status of the US presidential marines. But the marines are NOT the US army (Common misconception) but instead a single elite corps of the army under presidential control. Exactly that presidential control is what made them grow in peacetime to monster proportions, because the US president is way much more free to allocate the marines and set them in engagement than what he can do with the army. The real US army is today a sleeping giant, who wakes up only in important wars. I have often heard saying (Original from Napoleon) "Do not wake up China, let them sleep or the world will be shaken", but I say: Let the US Army sleep in peace...if it wakes up you will see the most terrible destruction machine ever created, backed up by the most powerful industrial nation in the world.

Believe me, the USA in a real "state of war" situation would raise in 24 hours the most terrible army the world has ever seen. A different matter is if the americans will be willing to do so, but do not think they are not capable of it :|\

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.