If the US had to fight WWll today, would we win?

Question

On D-Day, we lost around 3000 soldiers with another 10,000 wounded in one day. According to world-war-2.info, the United States had 291,557 soldiers killed and 670,846 soldiers wounded during World War ll. Would we have the will to see a war like this thru with this many dead and wounded now?

I wasn't trying to compare WWll to Iraq. I'm talking about same circumstances, same technologies, the only difference is our generation.

I never said 3500 dead soldiers was no big deal. I still have friends in the military, so I don't WANT to see ANY dead soldiers. But in the military, there comes a time when many soldiers will be killed to win a battle. Gen. Eisenhower, told the troops in his D-Day speech that "many of you won't come home". Did he think it was no big deal for 3000 of his men not to come back from this mission. If you think that, then you have no idea what goes on.

Answer 1

So, you're talking about culture, not technology or the modern situation.

No, I think today's attitudes, transplanted into the situations, resources, technology, etc of WWII would likely result in the Axis prevailing in WWII. The 'will to fight' such a brutal, devestating war was essential, and Americans, today, do not even have the 'will to fight' a small, nearly anticeptic war like Iraq.

Answer 2

Being an American i will actually say that the Allies gained the conflict no longer in common terms the U. S. yet they does not have without our involvement. this question can't be spoke back accurately because of the fact WW2 replaced each little thing. firstly of the U. S. wasn't considered a international potential until eventually now WW2 and if it weren't for our involvement interior the conflict we could have by no potential reached that status. 2d a huge quantity of the engineers and scientists that helped us improve the Atomic Bomb weren't born interior the U. S. and got here here to flee the tyranny of the the Axis Powers, so we could no longer have had the Bomb to drop. I say be happy element grew to become out the way they did & dont subject approximately what if's.

Answer 3

Yes. WWII was fought for different reasons. The Iraq war was a supposed response to an attack, much like the entry into WWII was a response to Pearl Harbor. In the Pearl Harbor situation, however, the response was accurate and directed at the right people. More citizens were on board with the war. Also, if WWII was happening now, we would have back-up in the war. Lastly, it is very evident that we are still the most powerful nation in the world. We have the best military. We are excellent at blowing things up still, just not so good at putting the peices back together.

Answer 4

WWII was a fight to the death. Of course we'd win. I think if necessary we would do even better.

But during WWII, the press was super-restrained and censorship was in place to prevent "bad news" from reaching the home front. Soldiers' letters were censored and V-Mail was in order.

The point I'm getting at is that WWII was both a military war and a psychological one. It pitted America's will to fight murderous scumbags against the press and the peacenik minority.

That meant total social control throughout the nation.

Secrecy was paramount with every project and anyone who leaked a secret would likely face the firing squad.

So its the will of a nation to win the war that's at stake.

But yeah. We could do it again. Americans are a pretty hardy lot. When its a righteous war, we put our hearts into it.

Answer 5

No, we lost about 10,000 with another 20,000 wounded. I doubt we would do well. Could you imagine CNN Televising the D-Day landing at Normandy??? Giving broadcasts of when the ships were on their way and whwre the paratroopers were gonna land BEFORE it happened so the German's could have been warned? And Rommel could have been at the front instead of at his wife's birthday party?
What would Hillary, Kerry, Edwards have said about the Atom Bombs Truman ordered. Granted they only saved about 100,000 American soldiers lives.
Hell, after Guadel Canal, they would have called the American troops Terrorists and said the Japanese were JUSTIFIED to Bomb Pearl Harbor.
Guess I said enough...

Answer 6

No, the media would declare us an evil empire trying to ruin Hitler's peaceful revolution. When a dictator kills it is ignored, but when the US drops a smart bomb that accidentlly knocks a camel over we are PURE evil.

Secondly, for those who continue to talk quagmire, review your history and read the portion of Germany after WWII when we OCCUPIED Germany and our men still died by the hands of renegade German soldiers. Was that still wrong???

Answer 7

I think that we would have alot more dead and alot more wounded because now-a-days we have more advanced weaponry. We would win against the germans though because the U.S. has some of the most advanced technology in the world. However, is Japan really 10 yrs. ahead of us in technology? If they are we might loose to them. We just have to look at the facts, and see who has the better weaponry.

Answer 8

Well, if a country somehow becomes as strong as Germany was and suddenly decides to invoke war, sure why not. I don't really see this happening because nuclear weapons have changed warfare entirely. See Nagasaki and Hiroshima for examples.

Answer 9

If we came up with a reason for it then us Americans would justify it! Can we say, Weapons of Mass Destruction?

I am still wondering what that had to do with 9/11 and the Iraq war!!

Answer 10

I would have to say no, We have to many Chiefs and not enough Indians. To many bad decision makers. I think the 40's was a time when men were men! We were not ******* like we are today. If Osama Bin Laden did then what he did in 01'. This country would have shoved a bomb right up his *** and not thought twice about it. Today we take a blow like that to the gut and do nothing about it!!!! Nothing!!!