What are they even talking about? We’ve been constantly at war since 2001
If Mr. Trump solves the Korea problem don’t you think it will be done swiftly? The war never ended. He ends it and it becomes South Koreas problem. It then frees up 28k troops(US) to deal with other issues.
You would have preferred we didn't go to Afghanistan and stay there to battle terrorist threats?
“What are they even talking about? We’ve been constantly at war since 2001”
Yes, but our single most fearsome (upfront) enemy was Iraq. How did that go? We crushed Iraq in a matter of days. We’ve had more protracted fights with terrorists, of course, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
This article is talking about much larger wars than against Al-Qaeda or ISIS. A war with Russia, or China, or North Korea or Iran, or two or more at one time could be a huge and bloody disaster. We are woefully unprepared and, as a people, we simply do not have the will to fight much of anyone. We can lob tomahawks at tin horn dictators, but a real war where hundreds of thousands of troops might get involved, whole fleets of ships, we are just not ready for that.
A war with any of the countries I listed would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like a cake walk.
We can’t even win wars against peasant goat humpers in Iraq & Afghanistan - Trump probably won’t change this losing pattern we’ve had militarily since WWII?
I think this will get ugly IMHO.
One could say that the US has been more or less constantly at war since 1775. The longest period of relative peace was between the War of 1812 and the Mexican war - 31 years - and even that does not take into account the American Indian wars that went on from before the revolution until 1924 (Officially). If you count all conflicts involving American troops or naval forces, not just declared wars, the warfare has been virtually unbroken since early colonial times.