If Europe went to war with the US who would win?

Question

Okay maybe France would sit on the fence

Can't stop giggling over the answers that have come in all ready ....thanks guys!!

Answer 1

Probably the USA simply because they spend more money on the military. Appart from France and the UK no other European countries have aircraft carriers and even then they are no match for the massive ones the US navy has. The US airforce also has better aircraft with better weapons systems and their Armies soldiers are better equiped. In terms of technology and military muscle no other country is a match for them.

Edit: Roger Vadim, the germans have no guts...Ha Ha Ha Ha. This is a country that took on Britain, America and the USSR and it still took us 5 years to defeat them. Even then if it wasn't for incompetant leadership they could just as easilly have won. Give me a break.

Acid Tongue: Europeans are scared of war??!! This is the continent that has been the start of two world wars in the last century, not to mention countless other wars through out history. The Roman empire as the name suggests started in Europe. The difference is that when we start a war our homeland gets bombed/attacked. It's very easy for the US to go to war knowing full well that they are unlikely to ever be at risk of bombing. And before anyone goes on about the world trade centre, that was a drop in the ocean compared to the pounding Europe took in the First and second world war. Well over 100 times more British people were killed during the Blitz.

The only reason the USA would win is because they spend more money. Their soldiers are no more effective, they just have better equipment. The only reason the initial land war in Iraq was such a success was because, they gained air superiority imdiately, they were fighting mainly conscripts and their weapons were far superior. In fact the US Abrams tank was all but invunerable to Iraqi armour. None of this makes them good soldiers in fact given a level playing field they are no better than any other country.

But as one person said no one would really win. Both sides do have significant arsenals of advanced weapons. Britian has Trident equiped submarines and France has ICBMs. The combined armies of Britian France and Germany are bigger than the US army and so on, so at the end of it all it would be irrelevant who won since the world would not be worth living in when the dust had settled.

Answer 2

First, why ask this question? The above question is that u . s . is going to war with Europe, yeh? So u . s . starts it, it style of feels. So WHY? 2nd, the place might or no longer that is fought? background shows that u . s . did no longer do so properly while they went against Cuba, or Mexico, or Canada. They have been fought to a standstill in Korea, retreated from Vietnam. interior the comparable timeframe, Britain lost in Kenya, Aden, Palestine, Cyprus. France lost in Indo-China, Algeria, and Britain/France lost in Suez. Britain does not have 3 provider communities, previous-formed that one, Invincible is de-commissioned, and France has the main important eu provider, Charles de Gaulle. France and Germany already have a working multi-national military brigade up and working. So the likelyhood is that any war may well be fought by ability of proxy or by ability of missile. i could admit that one very sturdy rationalization for u . s . going to war is construction now. The greenback is being hammered, the Euro is on the upward push, and u . s . will bypass added into financial decline next 12 months. All sturdy motives for militia journey. yet think of approximately it, many of the weapons structures are presented by ability of u . s ., so purely decrease off furnish, no could combat then. elementary eh? even though it would be better to no longer locate out. There are plans interior the u . s . militia from 1940 that seem at an invasion from Britain against u . s .. So the scarey bit is that u . s . sees enemies everywhere, yet I doubt if such plans exist in Britain. related to consequence? the wealthy get richer, the others die. equivalent length against equivalent length unit, then I say my previous regiment might beat something the u . s . could placed into the sector.

Answer 3

Since John Wayne is dead and the US is pre-occupied elsewhere, now might be a good time. Maybe Europe should go for it. Problem is does Europe want it? What would Europe do with it? As with measles, isolation is probably a better bet. Costs less in the long run.

Answer 4

We know this can never happen.

The minute European countries started planning to fight us a war would erupt over who was in charge. Britain, France and Germany can't do anything together for more than 15 minutes before a war breaks out. They've been like this for 1000 years. It's just who they are.

Answer 5

Well, Tony Blair would be on the side of the US.... and so the US would only have to capture or destroy the French nuclear launch sites... if they managed that... then the US would probably destroy Europe's military very quickly, but then get bogged down for five or six years in an "insurgency" until the ordinary people of Europe manage to wear down and defeat the US military.... just like the Vietnamese did and just like the Iraqis will... then the US will have to invade Haiti again just to make themselves feel better....

Answer 6

The EU would still be holding discussions on whether to chair a meeting for a meeting on the proposal of military action, before bringing it to the Council, who would then naturally have to meet before the concept is introduced to parliament and, of course, have it translated into French and somehow cipher £2million of funds, when US tanks are storming into Brussels singing "She'll be coming round the Mountain before she comes". Naturally, the idea will be vetoed by Luxembourg and the Armed forces banned by the European Court of Human Rights for inciting racial hatred against the US and compensation issued to Mr/Senior/Monsieur/Herr etc Bush.

Answer 7

No one would win. I realize you mean, who would be the victor by force of arms, but...for most of us, Europe is a place of incredible historial value, for many of us our ancestral home, and utterly irreplaceable. Also, they are as technologically advanced as we are. Any war fought to an end with today's technologies would destroy it, and a large part of the USA, and thousands if not millions of people...it's unthinkable. Whatever was left of the world after such a war would not be worth winning.

Answer 8

Europe? The entire continent of Europe?

Answer 9

Europe will win because the rest of the world will be on their side.

Answer 10

China