US attitudes towards military interventionism without the Persian Gulf War

If the Persian Gulf War never happened (April Gilespie never made that comment or whatever the POD would be), how would the American public treat future military interventions?

Following the USSR’s breakup and end of the Cold War(assuming it happens at the same time as OTL), would there be more pressure to downsize the military?

Would the neoconservatives have the same level of influence on Republican foreign policy?
 
If the Persian Gulf War never happened (April Gilespie never made that comment or whatever the POD would be), how would the American public treat future military interventions?

Following the USSR’s breakup and end of the Cold War(assuming it happens at the same time as OTL), would there be more pressure to downsize the military?

Would the neoconservatives have the same level of influence on Republican foreign policy?

not too much would change honestly. the united states had intervened in foreign countries before and would continue to do so, like in yugoslavia. the major coup of neoconservatives were the number of invasions post-9/11.
 

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It depends, if Yugoslavia is a thing, I can see the neoconservatives using the successful nature as a stick for the neocons, I can see some more calls for the downsizing of the military but NATO didn't dissolve when the USSR dissolved.
 
Right, but I’m wondering if the lack of a Gulf War would mean less of the myth of invincibility that the us military establishment had after that war. A myth that led to the 2003 Iraq War being the disaster it was.
 
Right, but I’m wondering if the lack of a Gulf War would mean less of the myth of invincibility that the us military establishment had after that war. A myth that led to the 2003 Iraq War being the disaster it was.

hmm, i can't see the military myth changing. the issue with the iraq war wasn't that the invasion and the military failed (it was quite successful) but that the occupation failed. so the U.S is still going to come in guns blazing, and not be prepared for a protracted insurgency.
 
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