What was the last war that the United States won?

Question

Please provide the rationale for your answer. We've already had answers ranging from the civil war (or "war of northern aggression") to the Gulf War of 1991. However, people have failed to explain why they made their choice. Especially if your answer goes back more than 50 years, please explain why you believe we've lost (or failed to win) more recent wars which are commonly viewed as victories, such as WWI and WWII.

Note that the question asks about wars, not battles.

It still counts if the US had help from allies.

Answer 1

America doesn't lose wars!
(in vietnam, we simply ended our aggression)

Answer 2

The War of Northern Aggression.

Answer 3

The U.S. clearly won the 1991 Gulf War. Iraq was forced out of Kuwait. And as then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said, "Saddam Hussein's offensive military capability, his capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually eliminated."

The U.S. intervened in Kosovo and Somalia after that, but I'm not sure either of those really counts as a war or if you could say that the United States "won" those conflicts.

Answer 4

Gulf War, 1991.

Answer 5

The last major war that the USA won against strong opponents without any help from anybody else was the American Civil War.

Answer 6

If you are talking about war in the sense of conventional warfare, then the most recent war we won was the initial invasion of OIF 1 in early 2003. That was over relatively quickly, The rest of it, up to present day, is not a conventional war by any definition. It is an insurgency/counterinsurgency, which is a common type of assymetrical conflict. Frankly, given the lack of regard of the insurgency for the Geneva Conventions (which, mind you, covers conventional warfare and is adhered to by those who participated in the Geneva Conventions), the United States has gone out of its way to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, despite the brutal, cowardly, and underhanded tactics of the enemy they are facing. In return, mindbogglingly, it has been rewarded by scathing media commentary and political hamstringing--none of which serve to help any aspect of the situation over there, except the cause of the insurgency: chaos, and eroding the support of the United States.

Answer 7

Does anyone ever really win a war? Costs lives and money for both sides..But think about this someone die and more continue to die for our Freedom so the USA must be winning every war it fights....

Answer 8

world war II thats it

after that they might won battles but not wars, same thing is going to be hppend in Iraq tooooo

Answer 9

The War on Disco. You don't hear much of that crap anymore, do you?

Answer 10

The war against itself !!!