Don't look at the fact that the Americans are now militarily strong, but when it comes to fighting a war, they are by no means a good hand. If you look at the wars that the Americans have fought since the founding of the People's Republic of China, you will find that the most powerful opponent he has really fought is Japan, a second-rate power during World War II.
First of all, the American War of Independence was mainly fought by the French, and without the help of the French, the Americans could not have won against Britain at all, let alone become independent. Louis XVI was the true founding father of the United States, and the birth of the United States was a product of the world hegemony after the Seven Years' War between Britain and France.
After independence in 1812, the United States had inflated its ambitions and wanted to take advantage of the outbreak of the war against France in Europe to annex Canada, a British colony in North America, and took the initiative to provoke the Second Anglo-American War. I didn't expect to take advantage of it, not to mention, and finally the British army in Canada counterattacked Washington, and by the way, the White House was also burned.
After the unification of the United States in the Civil War, after 30 years of rapid development, by 1894, the industrial output value of the United States surpassed that of Britain to become the world's first, but the United States was not strong in military power at this time, and it had no sense of existence in front of the old European powers. At this time, the United States, which was preparing to expand overseas, found that almost all the world had been colonized by European countries such as Britain and France, and there was no land for him to grab. England, France, and Germany are none of them that he can provoke. So the Americans picked the weakest persimmon to pinch very much, and that was Spain.
At this time, Spain was no longer the empire on which the sun never set, but it still had many colonies in the world, such as Cuba, Guam and the Philippines. The Americans immediately said that such a big piece of fat meat I don't rob you, who do you rob? So in 1898, he took advantage of the sinking of the Maine in Cuba to provoke a war with Spain, and finally snatched Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and other Spanish colonies from Spain. The Spanish-American War was also a sign of the rise of the United States, which began to establish hegemony in the Americas, and for the first time expanded its influence to the Far East and the Pacific, and stepped onto the world stage as an imperialist power.
Then, in the later stages of the First World War, when Tsarist Russia had been defeated and Germany had fought to the death with Britain and France, it was decided to enter the war and get a piece of the pie. The First World War was mainly fought by Britain, France, Tsarist Russia and Germany, and the United States joined in the later stage, and there were a dozen soy sauce roles, which were not the protagonists at all.
During World War II, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Germany had already fought, and Japan had invaded China for several years, so he was the last to join, and before that, the United States had exported a large number of military materials and equipment to Japan, such as oil, steel, machine tools and aircraft parts, it can be said that the United States was also the behind-the-scenes helper of Japan's war of aggression against China, until Japan's invasion of French Vietnam, which threatened the interests of the United States itself, and finally stopped the export of oil materials to Japan, and Japan then launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
After the United States finally entered the war, it was also with the world's largest industrial production strength that it finally crushed Japan in the Pacific Ocean. In the European theater, the protagonists have always been Germany and the Soviet Union, 80% of the main force of the German army was eliminated by the Soviet Red Army, and less than 20% of the German army was eliminated by the British and American allies. Although the United States also provided a lot of aid to the Soviet Union during the war, the vast majority of this aid was given to Britain rather than the Soviet Union. Moreover, the main weapons that the Soviet Union relied on to defeat Germany in the end, such as the T34 tank, the Katyusha rocket launcher, and the Bobosha submachine gun, which of the Ils planes was American? It's all made in the Soviet Union itself.
Therefore, until World War II, the biggest opponent that the United States really fought was Japan, and it still relied on a strong industrial strength gap. For example, the United States, an opponent of the same size such as Germany and the Soviet Union, has never really fought each other, and has always bullied the small with the big.
Later, in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the Americans were even more defeated.
Even in the Gulf War, which was blown into the sky, the United States gathered a group of Western allies to jointly beat a small Iraqi country. Not to mention the war in Afghanistan, during the 2003 Iraq war, a large number of senior Iraqi military officials were rebelled against in advance by relying on intelligence and espionage.
That's why I say that Americans like to fight but never do war, and since the founding of the United States, although the United States has fought two hundred years of war, it has never really fought or defeated an opponent of its size.