USA track record of losing wars

[denarii]

Post WW2...

Lost:
Korea
Nam
War on drugs
Two Iraq wars
Lebanon
Afghan
Sudan

Win
Kosovo
Cold War

Trivial
Panama
Nicaragua
Cuba


Uk track

Win
Suez
Borneo
Malaya
Aden emergency
Oman
Kosovo
Ireland
Cyprus insurgency
Kenya insurgency
Falklands
Iraq invasion x2 (we didn't determine final outcomes)
Afghan conquest (as above)
Cold War
Iranian embassy hostage situation
Coordinated overthrow of Idi Amin

Lost
War on drugs


Well I think that speaks for itself.

[Skorp1o]

Who gave you permission to post here 









lol 

[HonestBob]

Post WW2...

Lost:
Korea
Nam
War on drugs
Two Iraq wars
Lebanon
Afghan
Sudan

Win
Kosovo
Cold War

Trivial
Panama
Nicaragua
Cuba


Uk track

Win
Suez
Borneo
Malaya
Aden emergency
Oman
Kosovo
Ireland
Cyprus insurgency
Kenya insurgency
Falklands
Iraq invasion x2 (we didn't determine final outcomes)
Afghan conquest (as above)
Cold War
Iranian embassy hostage situation

Lost
War on drugs


Well I think that speaks for itself.

Ever spoken to a British soldier about his American counterparts?

[denarii]

Ever spoken to a British soldier about his American counterparts?

i did a test week at the paras and it wasnt for me, although i often wonder if i should have gone for the marines.

[Simple Simon]

i did a test week at the paras and it wasnt for me, although i often wonder if i should have gone for the marines.

I know a guy who signed up to the army and got kicked out during basic training.
He ended up squaring up to the sergeants.
I asked him why all the confrontation, his response was "They kept telling me what to do all the time"

 

[denarii]

I know a guy who signed up to the army and got kicked out during basic training.
He ended up squaring up to the sergeants.
I asked him why all the confrontation, his response was "They kept telling me what to do all the time"

 

hehehe

[visualizeperfection]

The opening post is in the lead for dumbest thing posted in the new UK board.


I think it will take something monumental to overtake it.

[_aj_]

No country can win its wars when its political leaders have no stomach for military victory.

[catracho]

Post WW2...

Lost:
Korea
Nam
War on drugs
Two Iraq wars
Lebanon
Afghan
Sudan

Win
Kosovo
Cold War

Trivial
Panama
Nicaragua
Cuba


Uk track

Win
Suez
Borneo
Malaya
Aden emergency
Oman
Kosovo
Ireland
Cyprus insurgency
Kenya insurgency
Falklands
Iraq invasion x2 (we didn't determine final outcomes)
Afghan conquest (as above)
Cold War
Iranian embassy hostage situation
Coordinated overthrow of Idi Amin

Lost
War on drugs


Well I think that speaks for itself.

So somehow you have the UK winning wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but then you say they didn't determine the final outcome?  How does that work?  You say panama and others are trivial yet the Falklands and Ireland as a war?

[denarii]

So somehow you have the UK winning wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but then you say they didn't determine the final outcome?  How does that work?  You say panama and others are trivial yet the Falklands and Ireland as a war?

Who gave you permission to post in the uk forum?

[catracho]

Who gave you permission to post in the uk forum?

You did when you started a thread with USA!

[Ken Fresno]

So somehow you have the UK winning wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but then you say they didn't determine the final outcome?  How does that work?  You say panama and others are trivial yet the Falklands and Ireland as a war?

Yeah, I'll give you Ireland, but the Falklands War was deffo a war.  The clue is in the title.

[denarii]

Ireland was an insurgency that lasted two decades or so....

[Hulkotron]

I lived in Canada (southern Ontario) for a couple years and it was interesting seeing their perspective on the War of 1812.  Growing up in the US we were taught that this was a small war between the US and Britain over trade rights or some shit.  We sure as hell were not taught that the US lost it or that it was a war of conquest (US trying to take over Canada).

In Canada it is a big point of national pride and is viewed as a Canadian victory over the invading Americans.

I don't know who is right.