After the end of world war two,how many wars has the US won?

Answer 1

That's hard to answer, because what defines a victory? The Korean War in the 1950s was a negotiated end to hostilities (so a draw?); the Vietnam War is considered a 'loss'; I guess the first Gulf War in the early 1990s would be a 'win'? Afghanistan is still in flux, but I think Bush would call it a win, and the same in Iraq.

I guess this means the answer is: only one.

EDIT: I don't think Grenada and Panama count as wars, and Kosovo and Bosnia weren't US actions - they were UN actions.

Answer 2

Hard question to answer. Sometimes what counts as a war isn't uniformly agreed upon. Also, some wars end with no clear victor. Pre-WWII Wars... I guess the war vs England was the 1st war we won. The Civil War can't really count as we represented both sides. The War of 1812 was kinda a victory and kinda not - stalemate. The Mexican-American War would be a victory for us. Spanish - American War is a victory for us. WWI, we were on the winning side, but I don't know if that counts... Hope this helps. We won EVERY war fought on our soil.

After WWII we only won the Gulf War - and that is questionable because we are back over there now. We lost the Korean and Vietnam wars in my opinion. The purpose of the Gulf War was to pull them out of Kuwait, we did that but another aim was to disarm them, we didn't really do that. I guess we won in Afghanistan, we still haven't found Osama though.

Answer 3

Korean is not technically over. No peace treaty has been signed.

Viet Nam is a clear loss, Viet Nam has been unified under the control of our opponent.

We clearly won Grenada, the invading Cuban troops were removed. (Yes, it was a little war, but it was still a war.)

We clearly won in Panama, we captured the leader of that nation and put him in jail, replacing him with a government essentially of our choosing. (Bigger than Grenada, still little, still a war.)

The US was part of the coalition which was victorious in Bosnia & Kosovo. In WWI the major allied partner was France and not the US or Britain. In WWII the major European allied partner was the Soviet Union & not the US. We still count both of those as victories so I would count Bosnia & Kosovo as victories.

Gulf War I was a clear victory. We acheived all of the goals set for the coalition by George H.W. Bush.

Somalia is iffy. We won the battles (although you have to say they were Pyrric victories) and left with out resolving the conflict. I would call it a loss.

Afghanistan is still going on, but we are winning.

Gulf War II is still going on, we are winning, but not as clearly as in Afghanistan.

I call it 5 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw, and 2 still in progress.

Answer 4

We haven't been in a war since then. All the conflicts since then have been police actions and undeclared conflicts.
But to answer your question...
-Nobody won in Korea
-We lost in Vietnam
-We won in Grenada
-We won in Panama
-We won in the first gulf war
-We lost in Somolia
-We won in Kosovo
-We won in Bosnia
-We're currently in Iraq (Nobody's gonna win) and Afganistan(We're gonna win)

Answer 5

i agree with local2daMax except, i must add we didn't win in Vietnam not b/c our troops weren't skilled enough but b/c there was more fight left. We lost in Somalia b/c Clinton pulled use back after we were ambushed by Africans who were trained and supplied by Bin-laden's men. The guys who were hit in the Somalia conflict were there on mission. They ended up accomplishing that mission.

Answer 6

All of them. How you judge depends upon how you set the goals and whether you did or did not meet the goals.

An example is the current case.
Hezbollah will yell and parade and claim victory and Israel will wave flags and claim victory.

Each had different goals and each claims they met their goals.

Answer 7

0 because no one wins a war.
People die on both sides.
Its a shame people are so used to death, it doesnt even affect us.
We just read about the 200 people that were killed by a missile attack and move on.

=(

Answer 8

LMAO good one :D

Answer 9

none