Who wins??? US+Europe+Israel+India+Japan Versus China+Russia+MiddleEast+S Amer+Africa

[Braznor]

Team A should kick out India and add South Korea.

Ask Charlie how the ROKMC fights wars.

Nice going.

You just lost your cannon fodder pool of One billion people.

South Korea would be toast alongwith Japan.

 

[Printer Bandit]

The usual suspects win - the arms manufacturers/dealers and currency traders.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Team A, air superiority wins wars these days - US, Europe, & Israel have that in spades. If it went nuclear, nobody would win.

 

[Kirby]

Nice going.

You just lost your cannon fodder pool of One billion people.

South Korea would be toast alongwith Japan.

SK population is about 50m, so half are men, which probably 95% have served in the military. I'd take 25m well trained soldiers over half a billion people who don't know which way to point a gun.

 

[kinev]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo#t=3m34s

 

[BoomerD]

 

[eits]

considering how the united states spends more money on military than any every country in the world combined, i'd say team a.

but, then again, team b was raised by tiger moms...

 

[vshah]

USA + INDIA FTW

a

 

[iGas]

Poor scenario.

Who ever control Canada, SE Asia, and Australia win, because those area provide at least 10% of the world minerals and resources. Canada alone hold 50% of the world potash (fertilizer).

Canada, Australia, and SE Asia would win if they stay neutral, because the rest of the world wipe themselves out.

 

[iGas]

SK population is about 50m, so half are men, which probably 95% have served in the military. I'd take 25m well trained soldiers over half a billion people who don't know which way to point a gun.

500,000,000 can handle a much larger rate of attrition than 25,000,000. It all depends on logistic, and how long the war go on for.

 

[eits]

all i know is that the ukraine is weak...

 

[Arkaign]

Team A, air superiority wins wars these days - US, Europe, & Israel have that in spades. If it went nuclear, nobody would win.

correct and correct ftw

 

[gevorg]

ISS would win... for a little bit. Maybe the penguins too.

 

[nonameo]

< insert old, cheesy chuck norris joke here

 

[Meghan54]

Team A, air superiority wins wars these days - US, Europe, & Israel have that in spades. If it went nuclear, nobody would win.

correct and correct ftw

Wrong and wrong.

While air superiority gives a decided advantage, didn't help the USSR pacify Afghanistan, did it? The Russians has dominant air superiority then and didn't help.

The U.S. arguably had air superiority in Vietnam. How'd that go for us?

We've got air superiority in Afghanistan right now. How's it going over there?

Air superiority helps, sure, makes it much easier. But until you take the ground with ground troops, you can fly planes until the cows come home and you haven't won a damned thing. Bombing the crap out of Germany didn't win, it was ground invasion that did. Without the use of nukes against Japan, the same would have played out.....bomb, burn their cities, but ground troops would have to have been used to win.

You can't take the ground with airplanes.

 

[Arkaign]

Wrong and wrong.

While air superiority gives a decided advantage, didn't help the USSR pacify Afghanistan, did it? The Russians has dominant air superiority then and didn't help.

The U.S. arguably had air superiority in Vietnam. How'd that go for us?

We've got air superiority in Afghanistan right now. How's it going over there?

Air superiority helps, sure, makes it much easier. But until you take the ground with ground troops, you can fly planes until the cows come home and you haven't won a damned thing. Bombing the crap out of Germany didn't win, it was ground invasion that did. Without the use of nukes against Japan, the same would have played out.....bomb, burn their cities, but ground troops would have to have been used to win.

You can't take the ground with airplanes.

Occupation =! Destroying everything.

In a full world war, it's not gonna mean shit to try to win 'hearts and minds' while keeping civilian infrastructure intact. And with deliverable strike power that doesn't depend on massive numbers of ground troops a la WW2, it becomes even less important.

All of the scenarios you give on more recent era conflicts were ones where we gave a shit if the country still existed after we were done with it.