AND got it's ass handed to it buy a bunch of farmers and goatherders in Nam and the Middle East. 20yrs and we/puppet government still don't control all of Afghanistan or Iraq.
Part of that is the fact that we haven't truly waged war since before Vietnam. We've been a half-ass peacekeeping force. We didn't go into the Middle East, or Vietnam for that matter, with the intent to conquer, subjugate the peoples, and add them to a colonial empire. We went in without any real plans at all other than extort resources kinda, but without implementing our own infrastructure.
AND got it's ass handed to it buy a bunch of farmers and goatherders in Nam and the Middle East. 20yrs and we/puppet government still don't control all of Afghanistan or Iraq.
Part of that is the fact that we haven't truly waged war since before Vietnam. We've been a half-ass peacekeeping force. We didn't go into the Middle East, or Vietnam for that matter, with the intent to conquer, subjugate the peoples, and add them to a colonial empire. We went in without any real plans at all other than extort resources kinda, but without implementing our own infrastructure.