There would be no need for the US to garrison every country on the planet. All the US needs to do is:AnchorSteam wrote: ↑09 Feb 2021, 22:27
An oh men, if you think we lack the troops to occupy the world, where the hell do you think we can find trained administrators to run a Colonial Empire?!?
The US didn't have one!
Cuba had already been cut loose, Puerto Rico practically runs itself, and as for the Philippines the only significant American "boss" present was MacArthur. HIS job was to help build an Army of 10 Philippine Divisions so that the US could withdraw it's men... which amounted to a couple of Regiments at the start of the war.
Conquest would have been easy, building a successful Administration that was capable of getting the whole world back on it's feet after a war like that would have been practically impossible.
We just didn't have half a million experts in that feild available.
(1) Eliminate any rival power (e.g., the Soviet Union), and
(2) Set up a network of military bases from which it can strike anywhere on the planet.
With these two objectives met, the U.S. can simply bomb and destroy any armaments factories that crop up anywhere in the world. This means the United States would be the only country in the world with military planes, warships, tanks, artillery, etc. The U.S. Navy would dominate global trade and make sure that all trade were made on terms favorable to America. Countries that don't comply can simply be blockaded and their armaments industries destroyed.
Edit: typo