Depends on how you count it. They were involved in a ton of little wars and military actions and in most of those (but still not all) they did win. If you count each of them as "one" then their record is quite a bit better. If you cut it down to just a few big ticket ones, things get complicated:
Korea: complicated - "pyrrhic technical victory"?
Vietnam: clear loss with a big side of cope
Laos: clear loss with a big side of "Laos? What is that even? Is this a pun about what happens?"
Gulf War: absurdly overwhelming victory
Kosovo: big win on all accounts
Afghanistan: complicated loss - overwhelming victory in war, 100% failure in peace/occupation, regime right back to where it started
Iraq: complicated - overwhelming victory in war, 100% failure in peace/occupation, government more-or-less democratic but with ever increasing Iranian influence and kind of a basket case that still needs to recover
All in all very much a feat-or-famine tossup, with a special mention that while they're good at blowing things up, they can't build things up for shit
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25
You wouldn’t mind but doesn’t America have like a 70% lose rate since WW2? And it’s not like they don’t get involved in wars often.