1. La Controversia Semántica: ¿Guerra o Conflicto Armado?
Gran parte del debate se centra en si las acciones militares de EE. UU. posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, como Vietnam y Corea, deben considerarse formalmente "guerras" o simplemente "conflictos" o "acciones policiales", dado que el Congreso a menudo no emitió una declaración formal de guerra.
- You dont say the conflict in vietnam, you say the war in vietnam. My god, what a shame.
- Boomers remember the vietnam war? technically not a war - congress agreed to send over a half million troops but not to declare war conflict is not war 58,00 casualties of our fathers, husbands, sons, cousins and friends. Doesnt -.
- The vietnam war was not a war congress never declared war. It was an armed conflict. During which war crimes were committed.
- For the vietnam conflict that was called the gulf of tonkin resolution the vfw veterans of foreign wars would not allow vietnam and korea vets into the building as they were not part of declared wars. Goddamn just read what i fucking write.
- Shit. Korea was a war it was viet nam that was a conflict. Ie . Didnt need congressional approval, i think.
2. El Mito de la Superioridad Militar: Ausencia de Victorias Decisivas.
Una crítica recurrente es que Estados Unidos no ha logrado una victoria militar decisiva y clara desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a pesar de su inmenso gasto en defensa. Se citan fracasos en conflictos asimétricos contra insurgencias y la incapacidad de mantener objetivos políticos a largo plazo.
- Face facts. The united states has not decisively won any wararmed conflict since wwii.
- The american military has only won a single conflict since wwii. It drew in korea. Lost in vietnam. It won in iraq the first time. Then it lost in afghanistan and is currently losing in iraq. Like mao said, the us is a paper tiger.
- The usa, a superpower, has lost in military conflict to a bunch of farmers in vietnam, cambodia, afghanistan, iraq, and left jihadis in charge in syria and libya. A little humility would go a long way.
- Weve lost almost every conflict weve engaged in since wwii. Were bloated, slow, and expensive.
- The us has not won a single conflict, by itself, since the spanish american war. Its most recent experiences, vietnam, iraq, afghanistan, do not inspire confidence.
3. La Cultura de la Guerra: Un Estado de Conflicto Constante.
El archivo subraya la idea de que EE. UU. ha estado involucrado en algún tipo de acción militar o conflicto armado durante la mayor parte de su historia, sugiriendo que la guerra es fundamental para la identidad y la economía estadounidense, impulsada por intereses políticos y corporativos.
- For almost my entire life, our country has been at war. It has been a cynical political class and greedy corporations that have dragged us into decades of conflict, all in the name of the almighty dollar.
- The us has been at war or armed conflict for all but 16-17 years if its existence.
- America has been at war for 93 of its history. Each conflict justified with words like freedom, security, or progress. America was built for war.
- The united states has been at war for approximately 225 of its 243 years since 1776, meaning it has been in a state of conflict for over 92 of its history.
- We have never been out of war for an entire generation. Every generation has a warconflict of some kind.
4. El Liderazgo y la Hipocresía del Servicio (El Caso Trump).
Se critica fuertemente a los líderes políticos, especialmente a Donald Trump, por promover conflictos mientras evadieron el servicio militar (como en Vietnam), contrastando su retórica belicista con la experiencia y el trauma de los veteranos.
- My father usaf captain fighter pilot was kia in vietnam. I detest war violence and since 1776 the u.s has been at war or conflict 93. That is only 13 yrs of peace. Every generation lives in the trauma of war and conflict. Heal america.
- I am chronically underslept right now yes. Thats even worse, it was the first major conflict where us involvement was downright buckinghamesque.
- Im just waiting for the five-time vietnam conflict draft dodger to reinstate the draft in america because our young men are beginning to refuse to sign up for the military.
- The conflict in vietnam was at the time viewed as a civil war, and presidents from truman to nixon privately expressed a desire to get u.s. Troops out of vietnam but were afraid of leaving a legacy of having been the president to allow south vietnam to fall to communism. 36.
- The man who avoided vietnam with five deferments now flirts with war rhetoric as political theater. History is unkind to leaders who evade personal risk, then treat conflict as a tool for power retention. The pattern is familiarand dangerous.