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Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
You can't be serious. We could barely take over Iraq, and never did take over Afghanistan.

We could render the world uninhabitable with nukes though. Not really the same as taking over, and we'd be killing ourselves too.
I think that it's possible that the US could take most of the world for a short time with conventional weapons if they decided to not worry about civilian casualties. That said, there is no way that any single country could maintain control of the entire world. It's just not feasible.

People need to remember that one of the big parts of the U.S. having success in wars was due to the art of deception. With the advances in communications and info technology, imo deception is going to be much harder for any country going forward