[eBelasco]

Key components of the strategy: pick a country that
1)is 20+ years behind you technologically
2)wants you to liberate them
3)has an army that will drop their guns at the first whiff of gunpowder
4)has no air defense capability beyond a few AAAs Meet those conditions, and execute your plan with complete excellence, and success will follow.

[Centurion2000]

1)is 20+ years behind you technologically

I don't think there's a country out there that holds a candle to our troops.

Israel and Britain are close at the man to man level but we still could crush everything else.

[epluribus_2]

that's everyone except china, russia, and the good guys (US/UK).

[polemikos]

Don't forget U.S. troop superiority in training, equipment, motivation, morale, etc.

[FReepaholic]

>>...Key components of the strategy: pick a country that...<<

5)Has adjoining countries willing to allow US bases.

(What would we have done without Kuwait?)

[George Smiley]

Key components of the strategy: pick a country that

1)is 20+ years behind you technologically
2)wants you to liberate them
3)has an army that will drop their guns at the first whiff of gunpowder

4)has no air defense capability beyond a few AAAs Meet those conditions, and execute your plan with complete excellence, and success will follow.

But what would we do after France surrendered?

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Key components of the strategy: pick a country that 1)is 20+ years behind you technologically

Well in military terms, that's all of them .........

[algol]

Key components of the strategy:

You left out, in the words of an Israeli general some years ago, that "it helps if you're fighting arabs".

[xlib]

Key components of the strategy: pick a country that 1)is 20+ years behind you technologically
2)wants you to liberate them
3)has an army that will drop their guns at the first whiff of gunpowder
4)has no air defense capability beyond a few AAAs Meet those conditions, and execute your plan with complete excellence, and success will follow.

Item 2 should be listed first, since 1, 3, and 4 seem to flow from 2. Turns out to be a good way to ID a 'just war' as well.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

You just referenced 99.9% of the worlds military forces that would do us harm.

[risk]

Key components of the strategy: pick a country that...

A couple of comments come to mind:

• This only illustrates how important having a strong and effective technological edge can be. We can't slack off now just because we sense we're "ahead."
• Satellite defense and ABM technology are going to be critical. We must not delay in implementing these.
• We could have been up against a much tougher army. Would we have been able to handle the casualty count? I was ready.
• What about casualties at home in the event of a terrorist counter-strike. I think we should be preparing ourselves for this more aggresively.