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zach asked in Politics & GovernmentMilitary · 7 years ago

WW2 Germany, USSR, and Japan vs. Current United States, who'd win?

Best Answer will go to most detail and the person who explains the war the best (how the first attack would happen, what would happen in between, and what would happen at the end...)

All of the US forces are inside the United States waiting to be deployed...All of the US Navy has it's ships 100 miles of the coast of the United States...also all of it's resources are in the United States too (planes, tanks, ect...)

The US has all of it's satellites in orbit and all of it's radar systems online...

To make things a little more fair the United States only has five 10 megaton nuclear weapons. The axis get two months to plan their attack, and allocate resources for their attack (enlist more troops, build more planes, tanks, and ships).

The axis attacks first...

Winning is either

1. Surrendering

2. Complete destruction of the country (or countries)

3. Taking over the country or (countries)

Basically does the 80 years of technological advancement win this? Or does the US get overwhelmed? I could see this going either way.

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  • 7 years ago

    How are Germany, the USSR, and Japan going to achieve either 2 or 3? Their combined naval strength (even assuming they get every single ship they had at any point in the war) isn't even enough to compete with a single U.S. Navy carrier battle group, of which we have 9, and we'd have ample warning of their coming.

    Even if they get onto U.S. soil and somehow remain supplied, they now have to somehow compete with 1 million U.S. soldiers, each of whom are far better trained and equipped than their opponents and supported by far superior armored vehicles and artillery. They couldn't hope to compete with the U.S. Air Force, which would devastate them from the air and wipe the skies clear of their aircraft without loss (enemy aircraft would be destroyed long before they can even see the American aircraft). Frankly, the biggest problem the USAF would face would be ensuring the fighters have enough air-to-air missiles, but a better program would be to destroy enemy air bases and factories from the air (again, without any chance of losses).

    Enemy forces are totally outclassed in every way - the only thing they have going for them is that the U.S. Navy doesn't currently have the transport fleet to send an invasion force to enemy territory (but one can be built).

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    This is a stupid question the US has spent $711 billion on its military that's $16 billion more than the top 10 biggest spenders in the world PUT TOGETHER the US could take control of the world on its own if you take nuclear weapons out of the equation

  • 7 years ago

    Well duh, WW II Germany, USSR and Japan did not have nukes. All the USA today would have to do is use its ICBMs and SLBMs and nuke all three of them into the ground.

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