What makes the US military great?

Answer 1

If I taxed my brain and your patience, I could name about fifty soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers whom I personally served with, tell you one or two stories about each that I witnessed first-hand and would swear to if asked, then you'd know what makes the US Military great.

It's the people wearing the uniform that make it great. It isn't the machinery, and it isn't the population that supports them (or doesn't), and it for doggone sure isn't the government that lacks the capacity to understand or appreciate them.

Answer 2

Jason -- there far more nations than just the US, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union who fought against the Axis powers.. What about Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Belgium, Noway, Poland to mention a few. It was the Australians and the British 8th Army who threw back Rommell in North Africa. The first land defeat of of the Japanese was on the Kokoda Track in Papua & New Guinea by Australian troops, initially "militia" (Part-time soldiers) well before Guadalcanal. The first offensive action the American soldiers faced (as distinct from the defensive fighting in Corregidor and the Philippines) was at Gona Village as part of a joint Australian -US attack. The US army soldiers threw down their weapons and ran into the jungle leaving the Australians to fight their own battle plus that of the US troop objective. This made General MacArthur furious as he was extolling the "bravery and abilities" of the US troops whilst deriding the Australians.

Answer 3

The combination of each military, Army, Navy Marines and Airforce, Coast Guard working together;

The technonlogy aspect is a big one also; being able to strike small targets from ships or land based platforms thousands of miles away and out of sight;

What makes a military poor, is Managment of Affairs and abuse of forieng policy.

Answer 4

Technology is worthless without a well trained, highly disciplined operator. The service members make the US military great.

Answer 5

The people. They do their jobs even when they disagree with what is going on overall. I'm proud to have serve for the past twelve years, and Overall, the military is filled with great people.

Answer 6

Our soldiers: It is an all volunteer force

Our Equipment: We spend ALOT and work hard to always strive to ahve the best equipped force.

Our Training: Soem countries have good training as well, but most of those are lacking in either 1 or 2 above.

Answer 7

We spend 5% or so of our GDP on our military. We have more ICBMs than any other country, and more deliverable nukes than any other country. We also have several hundred SLBMs. Our assault rifles are state of the art and our military combat vehicles are relatively advanced.

The only country who uses the AK-47, cannot afford Colt's M series and upkeep them.

Answer 8

Choosing the right ally.
This is the only way US military win in a major conflict.

Answer 9

The soldiers (to include Airmen, Sailors, and Marines), I know this is cliched, but when you are in a war zone, there is nothing except the guy next to you. The equipment, the allies, nothing else matters.

Answer 10

nothing makes the us better than any other except for we have more technology then most, as a matter of fact if you knew the background of many of the soldiers you would laugh, we have guys with criminal records, guys who could not make it in a real job, because they are just plain dumb, and what is funny is they are in charge of troops. the american army is nothing more than welfare with pride, its alot of people with no drive or ambition to go to school and find a real job, sure maybe most say they join for college money but statistics show that less than half ever use their college money, how is that for bright individuals.