America and The War Factory
Twenty years is nothing!
Well, we’re finally out of Afghanistan, the ‘forever war.’
We spent twenty years in Afghanistan, and by anyone’s measure, that was ten years too long. Regardless of your position before, during, or after Afghanistan, it did not last forever. And it is not America’s longest war.
America has too many wars to count: too many dead who never returned home, never got to march in a parade, never got to take a bow during Veteran’s Day.
The official list of wars the United States has fought is long: it’s hard to know which wars to count, which weren’t officially designated as wars, and what to do with the ones that were fought before the nation itself was established.
Here is a partial list of American wars most of us know:
- The Revolutionary War
- War of 1812
- Mexican-American War
- The Civil War
- Spanish-American War
- World War I
- World War II
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
Some places we have fought were never declared wars: even Korea — on this list — was…
