If you're trying to win hearts and minds, you're not going to war. If you're trying to build a wonderful pressed ash bone particleboard throne for Khorne of your dusted enemies, then you're much more likely to be winning a war.
The US can win a war against the entire world if it needed to. The good thing is it never needs to. The bad thing is it has a military-industrial complex that needs it to be at SOME kind of war at all times. So the US is financially incentivized to be at pointless wars with no real resolution or progression. The USA isn't trying to "win" a war with "a bunch of cave-dwelling goat fuckers", it just wants a perpetual conflict with them to satisfy its complex.
A fraction of 1% of the US's force was pushed against Iran for purely destructive purposes for just a couple hours, and it folded in half.
If you're trying to win hearts and minds, you're not going to war. If you're trying to build a wonderful pressed ash bone particleboard throne for Khorne of your dusted enemies, then you're much more likely to be winning a war.
The US can win a war against the entire world if it needed to. The good thing is it never needs to. The bad thing is it has a military-industrial complex that needs it to be at SOME kind of war at all times. So the US is financially incentivized to be at pointless wars with no real resolution or progression. The USA isn't trying to "win" a war with "a bunch of cave-dwelling goat fuckers", it just wants a perpetual conflict with them to satisfy its complex.
A fraction of 1% of the US's force was pushed against Iran for purely destructive purposes for just a couple hours, and it folded in half.