61 posts fighting the last world war.

The next world war if one occurs, will be on terms we probably can't even imagine, but what if china wanted to distroy america's economy for 10 years before a shot is fired? Could china close down the web? Could they force a run on the banks, could they decapitate Washington power? Could they block all the drains in Texas just before a forecast megastore that sees texans floating in their own shit in the streets?

Nuclear weapons and tanks and drones can't stop any nation who actually thinks outside the box to harm another nation.

No country can 'defeat' us in a full war. Defeating us would require physical occupation of continental north america and Iam not sure a coalition exists on the planet to do that

Physical occupation would require at least 10 million troops and the ability to supply and support. I am not sure this is even enough. The armed population of the country creates a lot of military headaches for any General

Not if you launch a few hundred nukes first...
And I don't think anyone seeks to occupy the United States, just defeat it. There's a big difference and you just act like there is no difference...
Like extermination is no defeat for the United States...

"No country can 'defeat' us in a full war. Defeating us would require physical occupation of continental north america... "

This is the exact same line of thought that the Japanese had in WW2, and it's just as wrong now as it was back then.

No it is not Commander. No single country could occupy America, period. Name one, I will show you the flaw of your thinking.

Many japanese commanders before Pearl harbor understood that war with teh US carried a lot of risk, and that if they did n ot bury the Americans fast, then industrial might would overwhelm them, which is what happened.

Find me a single American Combat Commander who thinks this way about any single nation on this planet.

Russia, China? laughable on both counts. Defeat us in battle? Yes, possible without a doubt. Occupy America. impossible at this point in time.

Ok, can not defeat us in a Conventional war. Better? Dont play word games, because I highly doubt the person hitting us with nukes is going to be able to claim much of a victory when nuke retaliations happen. Lose/Lose

Didn't the reptile people who secretly rule the world already 'defeat' the US? And continue to run things silently...

By reptile people don't you mean the jews?

An asteroid hitting the rockies could 'defeat' the US, throw up enough dust to block out the sun for years, kill all plant life; the only sources of power would be nuclear fission (and mining more would be hard) and the fossil fuel reserves, along with tidal power and some wind. The US would be able to grow food under artificial light using whatever power was left running, but the population would mostly starve and fight for survival; any preppers would hide in their bunkers eating their stored up food, while rampaging mobs would destroy what they could and rape then eat anyone who got in their way... (and there are several countries which could nudge an asteroid into a collision)

No, the reptile-jew war for supremecy lead to the establishment of Israel and the retreat of the jewosh population from their strongholds in middleearth.

I forgot about that ora, sorry. As much as I hate the reptile people I think it's safe to say that they are better then those evil communist socialist capitalist bankers that form the elders of zion. I would say more but now that I've realised that the defeat of America is imminent due to nukes/asteroid attack I need to start collecting more supplies for my bunker.

Papua-New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have now just allied and are plotting a total supremacy on the americas and a complete takeover of asia, and a cultural conquet of europe, along with a new economic strike into africa lol

Maniac brings up a very good point. The next war may very well not be focused on conventional warfare. What if its a cyber war, or at least cyber warfare has a large part in it? Who do you think would be able to launch a cyber attack that could cripple the US before our fleets can even steam out of port?

It could be said that Mexico is in the process of conquering america and that in another 20 years they may have successfully completed occupation. Does occupying constitute conquering?

Personally I am concerned with America's vulnerability to a cyber attack. All of our hardware is too dependent on computers.

Any nation is vulnerable to a cyber attack. But, like typical United States fashion, we'll continue to spend money on useless oil wars until a massive crisis occurs and only then will we put money into preventing something like that.

According to Mc afee 2009 report U.S., Israel, Russia, China, and France are gearing up for cyberoffensives.
According to the same report ( http://mms.businesswire.com/bwapps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgid=309201&vid=5, http://www.mcafee.com/hk/resources/reports/rp-sda-cyber-security.pdf) best prepared cyber defenses belong to finland israel and sweden.
which means that israel will start the war against usa and win it.

"which means that israel will start the war against usa and win it."

I lol'ed.