The last war the USA won was World War 2.

Yes, it can do enough damage to make other countries adopt DMCA anti-circumvention law out of fear, but it always manages to snatch ultimate defeat.

▲ collinmcnulty 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War. We don’t think about it as much precisely because it wasn’t a boondoggle that lasted years and years.

▲ nl 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Since the Vietnam war the US has successfully (defined by "achieved the stated goals") invaded a country as part of the following conflicts:

  Grenada (1983)
  Panama to arrest General Noriega (1989)
  Iraq in Gulf War 1 (1991)
  Haiti (1994)

There have been other conflicts the US was involved with that they won too, but the others didn't involve invasions (eg NATO in Bosnia

▲ lostlogin 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War.

That was a weird win with another invasion required for some reason and a toxic legacy of Gulf War Syndrome and no fly zones.

Military the US crushed it but it didn’t seem to solve anything.

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jcranmer 3 days ago | parent [-]

The goal of the First Gulf War was, expressly, to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control and (to a much smaller degree) to remove Iraq as a possible regional hegemon for the next decade or so. Which it succeeded at. Once you've succeeded at your objectives, and the enemy has capitulated, what value is there to prosecuting the war further?

	▲	lostlogin 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> what value is there to prosecuting the war further? That’s a question best handled by Bush Junior and the American people. What was the second war for?

▲ actionfromafar 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The USA-led coalition finally managed to overcome ISIS insurrectionists and helped Iran install Iranian sponsored militias in the Iraqi parliament and government.

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lostlogin 3 days ago | parent [-]

I think OP was referring to the first crack at Iraq by the first Bush.

	▲	actionfromafar 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, in that case, I agree. It was efficient and not immoral either.

▲ nutjob2 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They won the war and lost the peace.

▲ derektank 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most countries haven't adopted US copyright standards out of a concern that the US military is going to break down their door; they're motivated by the opportunity to sell goods to the massive US consumer market.