Who would win in a military showdown between the USA on one side and the "rest of the Americas" on the other?

Question

US military power fascinates me. To try and guage their military strength, I'm posing this hypothetical, albeit unlikely, scenario. Let's say a war broke out between the parties mentioned above. To make it interesting, first let's exclude wildcard factors such as nuclear weapons and military drafts. Also let's assume that the US was extricated from every other war and conflict anywhere else in the world thus having the option of concentrating their entire military resources in this conflict. The "Rest of the Americas" side include the armed forces of Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Cuba (and every other American country) but discount the ideological-differences factor. Keep in mind that whereas the US is military much superior to any one of these nations, these nations would be fighting as a bloc. Furthermore, keep in mind that the military technological gap between the US and these countries, though still huge, is not as big as the gap between, say, the US and its archaic adversaries such as Iraq or the Taliban. Brazil and Canada, for example, have some pretty formidable military resources of their own. On the other hand, only the US forces are truly battle-hardened. Can the US military wage and win a war over such a vast theatre? The "Rest of the Americas" would easily have the manpower advantage. The combined strength of US ground forces (Army and Marines) is only about 650 000 and that has to be spread across two continents. Does the US have sufficient aircraft to bombard such a vast theatre and control such a vast airspace? Would the US Navy be sufficient to control the seas on both sides of the Americas (Atlantic and Pacific) in an area ranging from the Arctic in the North to the Straits of Magellan in the South? Could the US win such a hypothetical, albeit unlikely, war???

Answer 1

Ok, considering for what ever reason we invaded them vice them invading us I feel that if we were on the offensive our actions would be swift and fierce, well thought out and handled very well. We would send 1/4 of our forces to Canada, that would be over fast, they would still be heart broken that we attacked them. Now comes South America and Cuba, this would be logistically tough but I think Cuba would be first to go with a large bomb, easy and done. The rest of South America we would Air Raid there bases and take over their towns with ground forces.



Now lets say we were to be attacked by all of these countries. First of all I believe that any ship that came close to US soil would be devastated by our Aircrafts. Any type of ground forces would be basically taking on every American in the US because we are too proud and stubborn to just sit back, so I feel that most Americans would not surrender easily. So you must add those into your equations. Any type of Air strike they tried to perform would also be destroyed by our anti-aircraft missles and by our aircrafts. IDK, maybe I'm just being arrogant.

Answer 2

The United States would win.. Canada would be the biggest threat strategically... but they don't have the manpower.



The US Navy would not have to patrol entire Oceans, just the coasts, and of course we would either have control of panama or we would destroy it. The same is true of air fields and most other forms of transport. No other country North or South would be able to do that to us very easily.



The current number of forces would triple on day one if our homes were threatened so using what we have now isn't a very good guideline, and keep in mind that 40% of American civilians are armed to begin with.



The biggest concern for the US would be fuel, other countries would have problems with food, water and medical supplies (depending on the region of course)

Answer 3

We'd win IF the whining liberals and do gooders of our own nation would shut up for a week and let us go in and do our jobs. We're taking forever in the Stan because we have to use kid gloves on EVERY mission, and Iraq is the same reason in addition to the fact we're training up the Iraqi Army that we'll end up fighting again later. Look at how we worked in WW2 and WW1 in comparison to now. We went in, bombed the enemy cities back into the stone age then sent Infantry in to decimate the rest who had made it through our bombing runs. There were no "rules" or liberal screaming "please don't blow up that very important building." If you turned us, the US Military against any other country in the world and duct taped the liberals down for the duration of the fight...it'd be over very soon.

Answer 4

Ths US would win, has everyone forgotten that we have US spec ops and CIA on our side? Plus we have hte US Navy Seals to go after the enemy leaders along with Delta, not to mention the Green Berets training the anti-Central and anti-Southen American rebels to turn on their respected countries, plus we have the new F-22 RAptor and Reaper UAV"s, now Canada highly doubt they would fight against us, too many ties for that to happen.

Answer 5

Well Laddie

beyond any doubt, the USSA would no be able to stand up and win. it does no have the strength or the drive to do it.



they are fighting one enemy in Iraq and loosing, the Afghans are beating them. the USSA can start fights but do nae know how to prosecute them. they once tried to oust Hugo Chavez and blew it (thank god). the Americas have loads of experience fighting a dictator like the US Govt.



the USSA is in decline. its days are numbered



The USSA would and could not win. in the middle east they can nae win against untrained troops and out dated Equipment.



the second biggest detractor is the cost , i do nae think China ( the real super power) would finance another USSA world destabilising war of greed and power again. look what it has done this time with the USSA irresponsibility and lack of understanding of how the world really works

Answer 6

I DON'T THINK THE US WOULD WIN JUST BY ATACKING CANADA YOU WOULD BRING IN THE BRITISH COMENWEALTH COUNTRIES THE US HAS NOT FOUGHT ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT WILL FIGHT BACK SINCE VIETNAM

Answer 7

i agree with scuba