How America Will Fight Its Wars Over the Next Decade

The ending of the war on terror in 2021, with the United States withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, marks a massive change in the United States foreign policy and how they will fight wars and implement their strategic goals for at least the next ten years.

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The USA has lost in terms of the general public the political will and social will to engage in conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq, which had the Americans invading and deploying 130,000 US soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively, with the United Kingdom contributing 45,000 soldiers to the conflict.

The United States faced a similar scenario when it participated in the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975. However, it was in 1965 that the United States started contributing more heavily from the original 25,000 advisers in the region.

This was when the United States became more heavily involved in Vietnam. The dates for US involvement in the Vietnam War vary, but historians place the start date as 1947. The conflict lasted for around 23 years.

The Vietnam War is generally remembered as a 10-year conflict within the USA and globally; like the Hundred Years War, it lasted from 1337 to 1453, which is, if you count it, more than a hundred years.

Understanding history and global events can be confusing. At the top of this article, I stated that the war on terror is over, but that’s technically…