Originally Posted by Feeble Minded

Let me start off by summing up the average intelligence level in this thread: LMAO

1. you can't nuke a country when they "aren't ready." Every major power in the world has radar and other military systems that will pick up a nuclear missile. If the US sends a nuke at China right now, China would send one back long before ours hit them. People in this thread claiming you could "surprise attack" other countries with nuclear weapons is laughable.

2. The world is a lot different today than it was pre-WWII. As far as warfare, this is due to advancements such as but not limited to Nuclear Weapons. A safer system of treaties has been established due to the failures that led up to WWI and WWII. Also, the US is no longer the world's undisputed superpower. Other countries are capable of facing the US in "non-nuclear" warfare. But lets not kid ourselves, any wars between major powers today have a high likelihood of becoming nuclear. And the U.S. is far from the only country with nuclear weapons.

3. To the dude speculating the strength of the U.S. army: The US army is much stronger than you are making it out to be. However, it is not strong enough to take over some countries, because taking over a country is not as simple as who has better weapons. There are many factors: how will troops arrive in that country? what factor will the air force play? who controls the water? Even more important than those things to a country's military stength are its economic abilities - can we manufacture the goods needed for warfare efficiently? can we outproduce the opposing power? There are a lot more factors than I just mentioned, but the U.S. is militarily strong when we aren't spread out. That doesn't mean we could conquer a country like China though. Nor could they conquer us.