Originally posted by xinfectedsoulx
The ****ing ignorance displayed in this thread, mainly by the Americans, in unbelievable.
You just answered you own statements. All one of the countries has to do is fire upon all your bases. They don't have to take the war Directly to America to fight America. All the have to do is bomb a majority of your bases. Then you'll retaliate by firing more missiles and blah blah blah blah. However, for you to invade you would have to move your men across the world to get to them. Once you're there, you're on foreign soil, meaning you lost the advantage. Forget about Nuclear missiles and shit, Men win wars.
How do you know for a fact that Russia don't? They might not feel the need to brag about everything they make and own. It's like if a person brags he's hard, he's generally not. People who don't brag kick the shit out of the people who do.
America lost the Vietnam war. Even if you don't call it a war, everyone knows what it was and that you lost. OK, you're "technically speaking", but that doesn't make the fact you lost go away.
You quite clearly have freedom not that new law has been passed. What does it do again? Oh yeah, lock up any person who speaks against/annoys your government without trial. That sounds something like what happened in Nazi Germany. Look how "free" that country was.
Stop being so ignorant. Sure you have all this tech and shit, but it's not down to tech. It's down to other factors. Who fights the war where. What hidden things do your opponents have. Don't forget, NK has had a foreign news blackout for ages now. How do you know they don't have high tech shit? How do you know Russia don't have some hiding away in a mountain? It's already been proven than your intelligence was off by on the Nuclear Missiles China has, by thousands as well. The fact that America flaunt the things they make means enemies can come up with counter measure for that device. Just because you put in billions of dollars to your military doesn't mean shit. Your guys work for money. People in other countries have to work or get shot, or are that loyal they don't care how much money they make.
On another note, A Russian warship was spotted just 30 miles off Englands coast last week. They think it was to avoid bad weather but there was no warning. Maybe a test to test our response speed? Would have been about 8 hours. Our ship got scrambled from the bottom of the country. In ****ing Budget cuts leave our waters wide open.
If a country fires on our bases, then the host country will also fire back. Bases keep our soldiers close to potential enemies. For an enemy to invade America, men woukd rise up from the bases and barracks to defend. There would be no surprise attack.
Yes, men win wars. But the Napoleonic style wars are long gone. A country needs an economy, manufacturing, tacticians, and importantly, technology. Men with superior technology win wars.
The Conquistadores, they were outnumbered 10,000 to 1. But they had steel. Steel won them the campaign...along with diseases and other factors, but say the Natives had steel, the Conquistadores wouldn't even be in history.
I was in South Africa and was at a battle memorial. 10,000 african tribal hunters attacked a German position, including about 800 germans, a few tanks, and heavy guns. The Germans won with under 10% casualties.
If technology wasn't important, men would fight wars with wooden clubs. Technology has won wars since 5000 B.C.
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How do you know they do? It's a rhetorical question. How do you know America doesn't have a laser rifle? You don't. How do you convict someone, you have to have evidence that proves beyond a reasonable doubt. Russia and NK having superior technology can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Just look at their budget, America spends what Russia spends on the DOD fourteen-fold. That money goes straight to R&

and weapons contracts. Money. Money. Money.
People in America grow up to be engineers that make all the technology. In NK and Russia, there is no such thing.
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That happened in the Civil War. Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus. I feel free as ever. That law makes me feel more free. I don't have to worry about terrorists. You can't even own a gun in England! How's that for free! If some thug breaks into my house, he'll be met with a 5.56 to the chest.
The law stops terrorists, not citizens.
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As to where a war is fought, modern wars are best fought away from home. Your women and children are safe, along with all the production lines, cities, government buildings, command centers, etc...
Are the men going to fight or get shot? Then just go back to work or get shot? Nobody will be able to fight a long war at gunpoint. They have to be devoted. America has 3,000,000 soldiers, all of whom are devoted volunteers.
Americans work for more money, then pay more taxes with the large sum of money, which strengthens the country even more. Money wins wars. Money pays the troops who use technolgythat came from research, and is built at factories because it could be afforded to build.
Money, money, money!