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As we are prone to do for many "what ifs?" and "why dids..?" we compare the USA in modern terms and abilities to past times when America just wasn't the military-techno leader that it is today. America in 1917 was certainly not in the strategic mindset that evolved after WWII where it has already fought and won the next war with its currently available weapons on a realistic computer aided war game scenario. I have no way of knowing this for certain, but I'd be willing to guess the US had several war plan scenarios available in 1964 that would've sucessfully "won" the Vietman conflict had any one of them been utilized. Bottom line is.. comparing the modern US with the historical US in a military context is an exercise in sophistry.
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