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The War That Made America a Superpower (No, Not World War II)
The National Interest ^
| February 26, 2017
| By Kyle Mizokami
Posted on 02/26/2017 3:57:02 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: SkyDancer
Canadians broke the German backs in WW1. The USA was a bit late to that game, but a welcome addition all the same.
I would agree with the article that the Spanish-American war was the rise of the US as a global power.
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02/27/2017 7:00:53 AM PST
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Bulwyf
To: xp38
Colossal mistake there. The US should of nabbed British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan off the get go heh.
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02/27/2017 7:06:23 AM PST
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Bulwyf
To: Bulwyf
Yeah, the Canadians at Vimy Ridge? They showed the Brits and French how it's really done. The Germans in learning we'd entered the war saw the writing on the wall and tried desperate measures to defeat the Allies before we really got into it; it was there when the Marines were nicknamed "Mad Dogs" in the way they fought.
In reading the history of the S/A war it was basically instigated by the Hearst news org with their fake news at the time. (Guns Of August)
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02/27/2017 7:12:39 AM PST
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SkyDancer
(Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: yarddog
The attack on Pearl Harbor was the big one but we had already begun to stir before that.A good book on that is Freedom's Forge," detailing how we had been marshaling our industrial might in the late '30s up until late '41, so that when TSHTF, all we had to do is ramp up what was already in place. IMO, William Knudsen and Henry Kaiser are unsung heroes.
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02/27/2017 9:54:34 AM PST
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Oatka
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