Posted on 09/06/2025 12:48:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
How did we win World War Two?
I think Desert Storm was a good W. Till the media did what the media does.
He said since World War Two. And he’s right. They have had to fight wars with one hand tied behind their back ever since.
By not using proportion response, but overwhelming the enemy. Not to mention using nuclear weapons.
That war started out good, but they didn’t go all the way. They hung the Kurds out to dry.
Opinions differ, but Desert Storm could have included taking Baghdad and removing Saddam. We didn’t do that. Had to go back later. In my opinion, our battlefield accomplishments were stellar, but we did not fully win.
Those failures are on the politicians, our servicemembers did their jobs.
Too many business interests to take out Saddam.
Agreed. Or another way to put it, the fighting on the ground was good, but the leadership was more focused on political winning that winning the war.
I would disagree with the President on this issue. But I understand the sentiment.
In Korea, the objective was achieved.
The US had the North Vietnamese beaten and was betrayed by politicians.
The US military beat Iraq like a rented mule.
It defeated the Taliban and occupied the country for two decades.
If we had gone in the coalition would have collapsed and we’d be fighting alone.
The mission was just to remove the Iraq Army from Kuwait.
Mission accomplished.
It was pretty clear what we had to do during Desert Storm. We kicked Iraq out of Kuwait. And that was a sucess.
Grenada in 1983, an impressive US victory, was an exception. However, there were less than 300 casualties on both sides, so it can’t really be called a war, which requires at least 1,000 casualties.
The military does what the civilians tell it to do, if the military is told to fight in South Vietnam but leave North Vietnam mostly alone, then they do, the same with Korea, if the military hands a country to the civilians and the civvies say thanks but stand down and let the enemy have it back, the military does that, what has not happened to the American military, is meeting an enemy that it can’t defeat on the battlefield which is what it’s job is.
And Trump is right. It’s been fight to contain ever since.
Bombs and tanks to destroy a country's infrastructure, which then requires contractors to come in and rebuild.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. 🙄
If you are going to put American Military lives at risk and expend national treasure in a foreign land, you damn well better be prepared to win, to win as quickly as possible, to win with a minimum of US casualties and with maximum all out force. Total war.
Do not only defeat the enemy, beat him so bad that he becomes an example for other bad actors to see and fear.
Then leave them with a big ol’ FAFO monument to remember you by.
Fight to win or do not fight at all.
We kept the politicians out of the decision making.
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