WTF happened to war?

WTF happened to war?

If allied forces were to move with full strength in to Syria then they could end the threat of IS in a few months, but politicians are afraid of the public reaction to troop combat deaths.
In the entire Iraq/Afghanistan campaign allied troop deaths were met with horror and derision by the public but in reality the number of dead in the entire decade and a bit long campaign used to happen in a day during battles of WW2.

North Korea are continually threatening to use nuclear weapons against other nations but thosr nations stand idly by while NK are slowly but surely developing the missile technology that will put the US and the rest of the world in range of those nuclear weapons.

Russia invaded and forcibly took control of parts of Ukraine, but again Western armies stood back and let it happen, while in WW2 immediate action was taken when Poland was invaded.

It seems now that military action is only taken if the chances of military personnel dying is extremely low, whereas the D-Day landing took on an overwhelming force head on, carried out by men with some of the biggest balls the world has ever seen (and indeed has seen since).

cameras got introduced and every little war crime became national news. like when those marines pissed on those camel fuckers bodies, and media was like "osh ma gosh, thos arnt gud marins, peple who r piad to kil, r gud bois".

Troops died in their thousands over the course of weeks in WW2 and their families felt proud that they died during their duty for their country, whereas now, if a serviceman dies in service to his country, his family attempts to sue the government for not "giving them the right equipment". Troops went in to combat in WW2 with no armour of any kind except a helmet.

It's laughable how the public think troops are paragons of humanity who aren't affected by warfare. Trophy taking and revenge against the corpses of the enemy has been a staple of war since man picked up a rock and hit another man with it.

From June 1944 until August 1944, the US had just under 30,000 men killed in the Normandy battle, but now we balk at less than 100 troops killed in a whole year.

>If allied forces were to move with full strength in to Syria then they could end the threat of IS in a few months

Yes, this is a real actual thing that could happen. You should be in Trumps war cabinet

I mean, fucking look at this guy. He would have walked in to shitstorm after shitstorm wearing nothing but cloth to protect him.

Hey man I don't see you signing up to throw your life away.

All sarcasm aside, it's a true point. The only reason it doesn't happen is because friendly casualties would be high, and they don't want to give propaganda wins to IS by having photos of dead marines in the streets of Mosul. Instead they let the Iraqi army take the death toll because who gives a fuck about some dead brownies right? Imagine if Britain and the US just thought "France, Poland etc? Nah, fuck em, they can take care of themselves."

Germany lost and with it all hope for a better future...

That's because millennials are pussies

So are you in all likelihood.

Your missing the point entirely. Every single person in the armed forces of the US and Europe DID sign up with the chance of losing their lives, whereas in WW2 a lot of these guys would rather be at home bringing up their kids or fucking broads, but they paid the ultimate price in their thousands, while the families of someone who willingly signed up knowing the full reality of what they were putting on the line sues the government. If every single American family thought like that in the 40's then America wouldn't exist because it would be fucking bankrupt.

user the US can't invade Syria. The government is backed by Russia. All jihadists groups by US-allied oil countries. A boots on ground invasion literally cannot happen.

people started having brains and learned to think more logically

the only reason war in syria and other 3d world shitholes excist is for country's like USA to make billions of dollars selling guns.

>tfw WW2 was the last "real" war
>tfw nowadays wars are just bombing the shit out of tiny countries for political or financial profit

Nuclear weapons happend.

See, dumb asses like you are the reason Trump is in office. You think everything in life is nice and simple, but it's not. You don't just move in an army and conquer an area. This isn't a fucking video game you moron.

True, all citizens of countries with reasonable war-budgets (i.e. the west) were taught that the slightest armed conflict would lead to total annihilation of our species.

Yes, it's lucky we have rational, cool headed leaders to prevent that from hap-

Fuck off cunt. I'm guessing your forefathers who fought and died in WW2 fought for nothing then?

>If allied forces were to move with full strength in to Syria then they could end the threat of IS in a few months

We could literally end the threat overnight, there are economical reasons not to, the petrodollar for one. The US screwed up stabilizing Iraq, giving birth to and funding ISIS.

I'm guessing you meant to write "de-stabilizing"

Actually.. yep.

We overregulated our military with a lot of bullshit, such as not letting troops take home souvenirs like your pic, and wearing fucking PT belts inside gyms and combat zones.

t. libshit defeatists

Holy shit you got triggered

I am sort of guessing that is the end game with nationalism, destroy the global economy so that we no longer fund the middle east, and we either let them rot in the desert or we just get the green light to murder them. It is always about the money. This is why they aren't dead yet.

war never changes, the actors and the complexity of each conflict has and it will continue to evolve until humanity realizes the complete foolishiness of it which will be very likely be never unfortunately

>inb4 liberal who collects farts to prevent greenhouse gases

why wouldnt people be upset there's not only the hyper nationalistic emphasis on the military, but the shear cost involved in training, equiping, shipping, etc. it's absurd you compare to two different time periods and conflicts with such retard simplicity.

After atomic bombs came into the picture, it became too high stake for world powers to fight each other directly. This is why war for the past few decades has really only consisted of the largest, most powerful nations on earth steamrolling whatever weaker ones that don't have nuclear programs.