Even then the writers were very anti-US military in their viewpoint in general. They had US military planners make some very dumb decisions -
bring home 43,000 guys and do nothing with them with the country invaded when they should have stayed in Europe considering the Soviets were finally falling apart and leaving behind thousands of Americans cut off behind Soviet lines in the process?
send forces to Europe after the Mexicans and the Soviets had invaded instead of sending those forces to combat them - no way does the 42nd get sent to Europe for instance in that situation
American divisions refusing orders to drive the Mexicans out of the country and instead defecting to CivGov, who apparently doesnt mind that Mexico has taken over the Southwest?
wasting three US divisions in Yugoslavia - and how did they even get them there in the first place, let alone ever plan on supplying them?
allowing the Germans to cross the Soviet border when every competent US officer I have ever heard of knew that doing that would invite a Soviet nuclear response
plus no Spanish, Portuguese, French, Belgian or Italian troops ever defect and fight for NATO against the Soviets, especially after the war had turned against NATO and the Russians had penetrated into southern Germany?
the US allowing a successful Soviet invasion of Alaska prior to a nuclear war occuring with Pearl and Seattle and San Francisco and San Diego still intact and the naval bases therin?
and then the final insult when they inflict an uber drought on the US that even they had to realize after they released those modules was overkill - that basically such an event would have killed off almost all of the US population
any wonder why some of us have issues with the canon? So if having the US finally act rationally and start to actually use their forces correctly is "America crushes all resistance and the Soviets are just speed bumps" I think we can be forgiven
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