Tien TheSecond
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Posted - 2012.11.08 03:12:00 -
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United States
>Strongest nation on Earth for 67 years and counting
No measure for strongest here
>Highest GDP on Earth
>Worth 51% of the global economy
False
>Largest navy in the world
False: the US Navy is the 4th largest
>Has military bases on 1/3rd of the Earth
Irrealavant: Operators currently span every continet, even that one thats not actually land.
>Only country with a functioning railgun
False: The DDX project involves many countries
>30 years technologically superior to any other opposing nation's military on Earth
False: Overall the US Military has a strong baseline for technology, but is found wanting in many areas.
>Only military that has the industrial and technological capacity to mass produce unmanned drones
False: Japan, Isreal, and the Republic of Korea, along with China, all have mass producible drones.
>Developing a new generation of spaceships
False: The US government has decided to allow the private sector to develop spaceships, and contracts spaceflights out to other countries and companies.
>Only country to have been to the Moon
False: only country to have manned moon landings
>Only country with a private sector actively working in space
False: Russia, China, and Canada jump out at first thought
>Global center of the arts, humanities, education, finance, commerce, business, warfare, technology, industry, culture, politics and communication
False: the Global center of finance is a corporation called The City of London. I'd track the others down but you should be starting to get the picture
>Owns the most cities on the World Cities ranking chart
WTF? Who cares?
>Won WWII singlehandedly
Are you high?
>Never lost a war in its 237 year history (Vietnam didn't win; look at them and look at the US now)
Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chile, Columbia, Korea...just to name a few places
>Leader of the free world
Don't like us? No problem.
Also of note: the global economy is not pegged to the dollar, and hasnt been since the mid 2000's.
Education system, I am dissapoint.
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Tien TheSecond
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Posted - 2012.11.08 06:53:00 -
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CLONE 2774 wrote:
Actually we do have the largest Navy and Air force but yea even i know most of this is bullcrap.
Plus i dont really care about our war history but im pretty sure the only major wars we didnt win were Vietnam and The Korean War.And they werent loses either.Vietnam was a police state action while the Korean war never officialy ended.
Vietnam was a civil war, as is the Korean war. Iraq was a major regime change, and we've pretty much conceded every war since WWII. The Battle of 1812 just makes me lol, because over a century later the same people who were fighting one another went on to form the unit that USASOC pays direct tribute to in its unit patch, and the most effective unconventional warfare units in the world resulted. The "sword" inside the spear on Operative unit patches isn't a sword at all, rather a dagger designed by the founding commander of the Devils Brigade (1st Special Service Force). It's also worth mentioning that the current incarnation of Operative warfare is the result of a failed rescue attempt. Canadian diplomats bailed some of us out during that hostage crisis (soon to be a George Clooney movie).
EDIT: largest navy as far as tonnage. Currently there is a service member draw-down. We are 4th in total military personnel and ranked #1 among the superpowers for total capability. |