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The US could never win from Denmark. Every tank or plane they destroy, Denmark just rebuilds as they are made from Lego.
Honestly, I have 15 years of naval experience, the Danish are one of the best trained and most modern navies I've ever seen or worked with (together with Germany and Norway) while the Americans nearly shot down their own helicopter by mistake, MULTIPLE TIMES, if it wasn't for an allied unit to intervene at the last moment like:
"This is US warship, hostile contact incoming, final warning read, opening fire."
"This is NL warship, hold your fire! wtf guys, did we miss an exercise or something? Are you aware you're about to open fire on your own helo right now?"
"This is US warship, hostile contact now friendly, out."
I've never seen a more incompetent navy out there, and I've worked with Italian, French and Peruvian navies too so that says a lot.
They may look impressive, with all their tech and carriers, but remember: They fought a 20 year war in Afghanistan against illiterate nomads with 60 year old kalashnikovs who live in caves, and they lost.
Hey now. The US also lost a war against jungle villagers, and then later started losing wars against inanimate objects like drugs.
At least it's not as bad as Australia. They lost wars against emu's, beatles, toads, rabbits and mice. Source This is so funny xD
I can't think of a war where the US decidedly won it since the civil war, which is purely on the technicality that the confederacy was not the US. It does feel like WW2 was carried by the russians and as of today we've lost the war of hearts and minds over it
Everyone loses to Vietnam and Afghanistan though. They're both famously good at home turf guerilla warfare
Nobody wins a Lego war. You think that unexploded munitions left behind from conventional wars are bad, imagine condemning generations to come to live in a world where you could step on a stray Lego brick at any time.
As a Dane that sounds like paradise
That said, Afghan peoples have successfully fought off a lot of superior forces over the centuries. Most recently before the U.S., the Soviets.
Afghanistan is just not a great place for a military to root out a guerilla force. Those caves you're talking about are a big reason. The people who know the land have used that knowledge to their advantage for millennia and it's not something modern technology can really win against unless you're talking dropping a nuke on them.
I know, I've been there
Also USA basicaly just won. They just didint really had a plan for afghanistan.
They did? Taliban is defeated? They brought democracy to Afghanistan?
In order to understand American military doctrine you need to understand a few things. First we're an engineering power masquerading as a military and cultural one. Second we had three major advantages in the world wars: we came in late to both, our civilians and manufacturing capacity were on the other side of the world, and we had more experience with an industrial war than anyone else thanks to our civil war. And third, we know we're insane and so does everyone else, sometimes that means we surprise Hitler, other times it means we accidentally shell Mexico.
And yeah the guy who shelled Mexico? L. Ron Hubbard, founder of scientology back when he was in the navy.
I'm not even a little surprised Danes had to stop us from shooting our own helicopters.
Americans think they are insane, the rest knows they are dumb.
I'm pretty sure we're both. I don't see another explanation for our current firearm situation