BREAKING NEWS! Iranian warships approaching U.S.

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starcraft said:

X1Gates said:
American arrogance never ceases to amaze me, they believe superior tech always equals victory, if that was the case their ass shouldn't have been whopped in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Vietnam etc. It's all about the heart and when you are facing people who don't fear death and believe that the after life is where it is all at, then my friends you are in trouble. Put aside your arrogance and see this threat as dangerous and with Chinese submarines surfacing behind American ships the world is changing and i believe we are heading towards a ww3 and a deadly one as well.

Hopefully I get to play the Order 1886 before shit hits the fan :)

You just listed a series of wars that were characterised by guerilla tactics.

Straight up clean shooting war, particularly a naval battle, you don't want to be on any side that doesn't include the USA.

Could this change? Sure.  But no time soon.

 

Straight up clean shooting war is only the case when both sides aren't really willing to engage in serious combat. War means, at some time, occupying territory. And in that point, the USA had some fails (Vietnam) and some moderate success (Iraq). In an all out conflict, things are way different. China specifically is a hard one, they have a big population and soldier supply, all of them with huge discipline, that is an asset no other country in the world have and it is in that way by pure planning (they wanted to have a big population to be able to overcome an all out war with a large number of survivors. Actually they were expecting a full world nuclear war where the few hundreds of thousands of Russians and Americans survivors would be destroyed by millions of chinese survivors).