Are you considering publishing some excerpts from your grand father's diaries ?
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"time is never, ever, with the invaders, because there cannot be sustained will to win"
Norman Invasion of England. They eventually faded from Sicily, however.
The statistical numbers will be on your side if we include anything in the Middle East.
The conquest of the Western Hemisphere by Europeans relied on two exceptional items : Large and Expanding disparity in technology and killer epidemics such as smallpox. Also, a certain amount of intermarriage, a traditional weapon of both sides.
If we exclude encounters between developed and aboriginal societies, invasion doesn't work well unless the victim country is very small and has few friends.
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"change frame, usa is invading here there and everywhere, now, again, because its people, in the aggregate, want to, nothing more, and will get what is inevitably coming, nothing less"
The current administration had to work pretty hard to sell the Iraq invasion, they had to create intelligence findings for Saddam's WMDs and spin the "Al Queda and Iraqis" myth pretty hard.
I don't expect the US will be invading anywhere else for a while.
I also expect the option of "bomb them back to the stone age from 30,000 feet and NO US BOOTS ON THE GROUND" will be strongly considered in the future. |
