In a previous article, I provided a summary of wars the U.S. should have avoided fighting to avoid tragic and unforeseen consequences that served to create new enemies, making the United States much less safe and secure. Here is a list of a few major wars, that in retrospect, the United States should have fought very differently to produce a far more positive outcome from a U.S. national security perspective:
World War II (1941-1945)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) should not have provoked Imperial Japan to attack Pearl Harbor with his joint U.S.-UK-Dutch oil embargo in August 1941, but once the Japanese attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States, the U.S. had no choice but to fight both Nazi Germany and Japan. Engaging in an unholy alliance with the Soviet Empire and providing it with tens of thousands of tanks and combat aircraft as well as massive military-industrial assistance contributed to a Communist takeover of one-third of the world’s territory within four years of the war’s end. This proved to be one of the most tragic strategic blunders in U.S. history. A far better and more morally justifiable alternative would have been for the United States to have signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviets and supplied them with non-military, non-industrial assistance, including food and fuel, and raced them for control of Central and Eastern Europe, likely enabling the United States to liberate all of Central and most of Eastern Europe in advance of the Red Army.
