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The primary source of superiority in a war is "not being within reach of a enemy munitions". US does great in European wars for that reason, and is historically
by lupire 3y ago
The primary source of superiority in a war is "not being within reach of a enemy munitions". US does great in European wars for that reason, and is historically mostly free from North American wars because US dominates the whole continent.
- Qwertious 3y agoDominating the whole continent isn't enough, or Britain would have won WW1 much earlier due to the support of Australia - who dominate the whole continent.
- hef19898 3y agoThe continent, not a continent. As in, the continent the war is fought on, not a continent on the other side of the planet.
- WalterBright 3y agoThe US dominates the whole continent because it is more free market.
- hef19898 3y agoThe US dominates North America because after the war of independance no other power on the continent was left to oppose them. Militarily, that is.
- ben_w 3y agoI'd say the War of Independence is too early for that, at that point they still had the French, the Spanish, and quite a lot of the Native American tribes as relevant military opposition. Even the British were still on the continent as Canada didn't follow the 13 colonies, and war between the two did result in the White House getting burned down by British-Canadian forces prior to Canadian independence.
- hef19898 3y agoTrue, I am not that well versed in American history without reading it up. In a sense the US got lucky, that events elsewhere opened them the door to take over North America: the Napoleonic Wars and the sale of the French territories, the Spanish decline as a major power...