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>>>>RE: I seem to recall a couple of wars in the first half of the last century in which we participated. I am not claiming we did it all by ourselves, certainly not, but IMO both of them would have turned out differently if not for U.S. involvement. Would you rather we all spoke German now?
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>>>>This was accomplished by state of the art manufacturing(supply) and a very large population(to overwelm the enemy with a huge army). Of the two, the USA and China, which one has state of the art manufacturing and a very large population now?
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>>>This would play role if they were to restrict warfare to conventional guns. With weapons available today, next world conflict might be the
>>>very last.
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>>There is no doubt whatsoever that your are absolutely correct if and when nukes are involved.
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>Maybe not.
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>Wait until North Korea or Iran manages to pop a nuke or nukes high over the US for EMP effect.
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>This US will be paralyzed for many years, people in the US will starve, people in the US will die of disease, the world economy will be devastated and, depending on who is in office, no real retaliation will take place.

I'm not so sure - The US has done a lot of testing of the effects of an emp on micro circuits and they may have a way to handle the trouble. For us there is the home made 'Faraday box' to help. Last I heard, the russians were still using tubes to get around the problem.