[SenAnder]

> America has had a massive advantage in every war it’s fought in the past 100 years: America has always been fighting elsewhere .. America’s population, industry … They’ve all been safely 10,000 miles away across oceans from the enemy and pretty much untouchable

If you want to protect your population in the short-term, that's good. But if you want to win a war, that's a hindrance:

Soldiers in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. -Sun Tzu, Art of War https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9551422-throw-your-soldiers...

[yongjik]

Meh, that's a gamble that only rarely works. Japan during WW2 spread propaganda that Americans will kill everyone, and forced even civilians to die rather than surrender.

Look how it worked out for them.