American Military Success

American Military Success
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The US Military Strategy Failure After 1950
The US military had played a key role during the World War I and World War II which made it to develop into a super power. The US military had insisted to remain neutral during these wars but was provoked by attacks of its submarines by the German troops. This made the US to engage in the World War I by a continued supply of resources to Britain and France. The US increased its offensive exhausting the German reserves prompting them to sign a conditional surrender and thus ending the war. During World War II the US was able to mobilize its military with high priority to air power. The involvement of the US in this war was limited to providing resources to Britain, Soviet Union and republic of china, but the attack of Pearl Harbor by Japan opened an avenue for the US to be officially involved. The US deployed its troops and planes in the beginning with strategic bombing of Nazis who had occupied Europe and consequently the invasion of German in 1945 with Soviet Union invasion in the east. This led to surrender of the Germans leaving the US to campaign the pacific war with Japan, where the US employed atomic bomb to shock the leadership of Japan causing the Japanese troops to surrender.
The quick mobilization of the US led to eventual dominance to military power in the theatre of war, and the industrial might of its economy was a major factor in the mobilization of its resources. The US learned the strategic and tactic lessons of the significance of air superiority and plane carrier in the naval actions which guided its military doctrine (Coffman, 1998). A special place is held by World War II in the US psyche as the countries greatest triumph as it made the US to emerge as undisputed superpower together with the Soviet Union. The development of these two nations as superpowers resulted in the US providing foreign milit...