>>1177261I believe the first World War is seriously underrated and unjustly far from American memory. After all, our participation in the war transformed us into a military and economic powerhouse. I should also mention that there's something of a meme that American soldiers were untrained and unprepared for the war, but we'd just come off of wars such as the Philippine War, the Banana Wars in the Carribean, the Border Campaign against Mexico, and the Boxer Rebellion in China. So, in fact, we had already had extensive experience with rapidly deploying troops overseas and fighting with modern weapons.
