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I'm a retired US Air Force ELINT Analyst who was stationed at RAF Mildenhall UK and RAF Edzell in Scotland. I can assure you that the United States has a very special relationship with the UK. We share intelligence information and do other things that we don't do with any other nation. Btw I worked with the SR-71 Blackbird while at Mildenhall. It was probably my favorite assignment during a very interesting career.

They always get this one wrong. They say the US has 11 carriers. But in fact we have over 20 carriers including the 11 suppers.

The US military keeps the international lanes of commerce working despite 9/11, despite war fronts. There is no other nation that has the capacity to do that. No one talks about that.

Start calling them fries, or stand the f*ck by...😂

As an American I can say without a doubt that this scenario will never play out no matter who rises to power. We love you guys. If we take over the world, you'll be right at our side....lol

If the US and UK ever go to war, so many things in the world will have had to have gone wrong that this war would probably be the least of our concerns. Really struggling to think of a scenario where it could happen.

You should definitely react to us vs the world. UK is light work

This video did not address the biggest problem the UK would face. The UK produces only about 60% of the food it consumes so all the US would need to do is set up a militarized embargo and wait for the UK to surrender. Most British people think they stood alone and faced the Nazis by themselves but they completely ignore the trans-Atlantic conveys that provided food and materials and allowed Britain to hold out. Those convoys were only possible because of Canada coming to Britain's aide along with every other Commonwealth country. Something some Brits conveniently forget.

As an American I can definately say we would like a stronger U.K. military. We want our allies to be strong.

As a retired US Army SGM, I find it amusing that this video was put out by a Russian... Most definitely some of the figures are, we'll say "off".

As an american (who does love his brit friends) it is straight up crazy to hear y'all at the start debating whether its possible considering the absolutely immense gap between our two militaries, its like me fighting a middle schooler.

I grew up in a career US Military Family. My uncles at the US Airforce Academy, and Dad's 35 year Army career including as an instructor at the US armor war school. A similar question was asked of my Dad in one of his classes, Dad said the UK would be one of the last militaries he would want to War plan against. In his words, the UK military historically does more with less than any country in the world, with the exception of Vietnam, and Israel. They have always leaned on superior discipline from the top, to bottom especially on the front line level, innovation, relationsips, and intelligence networks. Being a small Island nation with relatively limited resources, the UK was able to take over a large portion of the world. Dad has always taught me, modern wars are more than just one military defeating another. It's the nation's will to fight, its political will to fight, and the will to fight in your front line units. A military taking territory is one thing, holding territory is another.

The person who made the video is not quite familiar with the US military. He is only counting US Navy planes for the carriers. US Marines fighters can also operate from the carriers. So all 11 carriers can be manned with fighter squadrons.

The thing about ramping up war time production is that you need the resources to manufacture those weapons. The US is much more self sufficient than Britain. The video is oversimplified because it doesn’t mention that the US would establish a naval blockade to prevent imports to Britain. Of course, this all academic as we have a special relationship.

As an American veteran, I will say that you should not disrespect a country that once basically ruled the world. The phrase, the sun never set on British land wasn't just a joke.

You guys have to react to The Fat Electrician. Absolutely fantastic US historical military people/events stories told fantastically.

My neighbor is a foreigner to The States, and he's said that Americans have no idea how terrifying America is to the rest of the world.

Even though this is academic, no allies and no nukes but really crippled US with overseas bases? We got 800 of those we can't use? lol j/k this scenario is weird. I am an ex military operator and love the UK operators just will only invade to liberate you not conquer! Just provide the beer!

You guys should react to The United States (USA) vs The World, i preferred The Infographics Show's version over The Military Shows, but they both say almost the exact same thing.

There’s literally no reason to do it. We definitely could and would win, wouldn’t even be that difficult (relatively speaking), but it would be very pointless. The entire US strategy, post WW2, has been to build alliances so that we don’t have to constantly guard against everything all the time. You could argue that Canada is a more important ally strategically, or Japan, or SK, or Israel, but I don’t think you could argue there’s a closer ally. The UK has been “ride or die” with the USA in basically everything for a century. Ultimately, as big as the USA military and political influence are, we can’t do everything, and our “western” Allies aren’t anything we want to mess with (most of us that is).

dave show her the infographicsvideo of the us v the world see what she says about that

The first sentence on this video should have been.. “ Yes, if we really really wanted to” end of discussion

One thing that almost never gets mentioned is that even with the U.K. being a very close ally, make no mistake, the U.S. has on their books today an account of all of the U.K.s weaknesses, locations of key assets and bases, and strategies for defense. The U.S. will deploy massive amounts of bunker busters to attack U.K. military leadership and enough bombs to level any useable runways for military planes to use as well as naval bases and dry docks. A large part of why Britain didn't surrender during the Blitz in WWII was hope given to them from other countries like the commonwealth but even neutral parties like the U.S. that they would join them and give aid. Playing by the rules in this scenario, you take away all other countries and the aid they can give and you allow the British people to grasp what they are up against, no chance. Not to say the British military is bad, they are amazing. It is just hard to make up the sheer number difference that the U.S. can throw at them.

@3:50 "...we've more reserve than we do standing military..." That was pretty much the case about 90 years ago, too. Didn't work out so well last time around.

Add in other foreign bases, US approx 750 in 80 countries. Britain, France, Russia combined approx 30. US averages per year $ military, about as much as the next 10 countries combined. Registered hunters in Wisconsin, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Idaho are approx 2,308,000, largest army on earth, registered hunters in Texas alone would be the largest standing army. We don’t own just pea flickers, and we don’t own just one, and large amounts of that also reload our own brass. God bless America! And the UK as well!

I get what Ash is saying about the Britain holding onto weapons planned to be exported, however, the actual quantity is not that high. The UK generally focuses on expensive systems like missiles, or Eurofighter related exports. They do sell other stuff as well but not in large quantity. It's also worth noting that the vast majority of countries, including the UK, don't really have large reserves of equipment. They generally have their standing force, and some reserves to act as replacements for current equipment. The US, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, South Korea, and China are the only countries with actual large stockpiles of equipment (With Poland and India building up their supplies). Ukraine and Russia inherited theirs from USSR. South and North Korea built up massive quantities as there's always the concern of the other country attacking. China built up a massive stockpile to become the next Superpower. The US keeps huge quantities of reserves as we want to be able to wage 2 major wars with peer militaries at any time. The reality, however is that we're learning that Russia's stockpiles (the largest in the world) aren't enough for the war in Ukraine. They are the second largest arms exporter and they've started holding all their exports and even buying equipment from other nations. The UK does not have large reserves and from an export standpoint, they're fairly small. If mass mobilization occurred, most troops would be lightly armed as the UK wouldn't have enough equipment on hand. Also, with US control of air and sea, the US would likely be able to bomb and defensive positions and land relatively unopposed. The UK's best chance would be to retreat and wage a guerrilla war.

You need to import Antimony for bullets. So even if you have guns, you’re going to limited with projectiles

Kermit the Frog is there to ease Ashes fears that the UK would get Rekt 😁

The UK isn't even a first-rate military force anymore, they've made so many cutbacks. Meaning, you're not even capable of defending an attack on the country... It's mainly because the UK knows their cousins across the pond will come to their defense with the biggest, most dominant military force ever existing on earth. It's also something that bothers us in the US. Because countries like England and Canada and Germany boast about how "we're better than the US because we put so much more money into social programs". Ignoring the fact they're only able to afford such programs because they don't need a proper military. Who needs a baseball bat when big brother has a cannon?

I commend the respect. I did not join my Navy for harm. I joined for protection. Eh, we will fight for each other. No question.

Yea… this is never going to happen. If anything it would be the US and UK attacking someone else together like Iraq and Afghanistan.

You're right, that fucking frog is hilarious.

I do understand what you are saying that it would be VERY hard and also VERY long to invade and take over the UK, but the bottom line is that it will eventually be done. I can completely agree with you that it will be hard to get ships close to the shores and that you can never underestimate british morale but the point that this video is trying to make is that if the U.S. wanted to, it definitely could. It may take 3 years, it may take a decade, but eventually they will take it. However, it's a good thing that we're all friends and share the same interests because trust me when I say, no one in America would ever do that to our brothers and sisters across the pond.

I did find it interesting though that some of the air strikes the British did in Yemen in the past week, they had to fly 8 hours I believe, from a base somewhere in southern Europe or might have even been Turkey, I can't remember, to Yemen to perform the strikes. Meanwhile, most of the US air strikes were from the aircraft carrier in either the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden. Both UK's carriers are at home for maintenance, if I heard correctly.

Whaddya do? "Oh, f*ck, I'm dead"! P.S. I read the Hammer's Slammers books where airpower is obsolete because artillery counter battery fire is shooting the other guy's artillery shells as they're coming out of the tubes...

The US Navy is very, very wary of the Astute class subs, in joint exercises they have an almost impossible task locating them. The Royal Navy submarine arm is regarded as the best in the world, and the Astutes are the stealthiest subs in existence.

We're allies with the U.K., there would never be a reason to. And yeah I agree, whoever was the aggressor, would be the ones that were in trouble, and as great as our military is in America, we can still only do so much. Odd video from whomever created this. Need more Bill Burr from you two though. lol

The reason the Brits don’t spend money on their military is because they like other countries depend on the US and NATO for their defense. I have a question. If the Brits are so patriotic why don’t y’all display your country’s flag unless it’s so kind of sporting event? In the US we display our flag proudly on schools, government buildings, churches, homes, businesses and even on our vehicles.

19:18 Where is your other family in, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe or Kenya?

I find it funny you talking about Britains total legal firearms. Texas alone has more firearms than the whole of the UK. Thats not even counting the rest of the US. The amount of civilian guns in the US makes up a military on its on.

Shotguns and 22s lol I have multiple of both plus 2 Aks and a Draco and a AM-15 chambered in 7.62 and a regular AR chambered in 556 and 223 and several bush rifles like 30-30 and 308 and all that good stuff and that’s just my rifles. I have even more pistols. With just the guns I own I could probably arm 2 or 3 dozen people lol

we love the uk we will always stand together

The video does not factor that the attack would happen on day 1, but we would have been planning and practicing up to the day of. It wouldnt take a year, it would be a couple months at the most. All of the bombing and missle attacks would be hundreds...daily...for a year.....the entire year. It would happen so fast and so hard that you wouldnt even believe it, it would be like seeing an alien invasion movie lol. The US military has weapons and planes/ships that we as american citizens dont know about yet..... Just think, the f22 and f35 came out in 1997!!!!! And those are the most steathliest and advanced jets in the world, those are like 26 years old.....they have newer stuff, spaceship type of stuff since 2018.

@ ):10 That was my same exact expression on my face. My brain to do a hard reset.

I know her from...something else...haha! keep her around and your channel will do great.

Let’s not forget that a rather large number of people in the US came here from the UK! Or at least our ancestors did. I had my dna analyzed by my heritage. Com, it came back as 67% England/Whales, 30% Ireland/Scotland and 3% Norway, So I’m basically just an old white guy from the UK!

When I was in the USMC in the 90s, we did joint training with the Royal Marines...I'm not sure the statement of British Infantry being undertrained is accurate...Royal Marines are absolute beasts and "mad lads" and can absolutely scrap...I don't know how Royal Marines compare to the British Army...but in a man to man firefight I think it would be very equal...

It always strikes me as ironic that the British invaded, occupied and pillaged so many countries over their history, a point of fact at which their people are still so proud of and mention at every opportunity. But any threat of invasion of their homeland, even a hypothetical one, leaves them scrambling. bewildered and desperate to be reassured that their special relationship and historical alliances will ensure that they do not suffer the same fate that they subjected so many others to. I heard a quote that the list of countries that the British haven't invaded is smaller that the list of those it has. 🤫

Points to Ash for the Discovery Channel bit...

In the beginning they are already wrong cruisers and destroyers carry a multitude of different types of missiles and one of them is an anti ship missile

I agree the cops could train the civilians to help but keep in mind the training of those additional people will be very very amateur at best and they have the us infantry soldiers coming.

The U,S. has a population of 338 million, and the military consists of approximately 1% of the population .

Accuracy international is a tier one rifle company I’m talking like SAS, seal team six, Delta force

@8:30 i would be curious what is considered "armed" police in the UK. Because plenty of police foces in the US are better armed than half the worlds militaries lol

we went from #1 enemies to #1 allies. who knows the future political views and decisions can change things

As a former U.S. Marine, I'd not fight against my British brothers. Ever.

what lots of people don't realize is the fact that the american settlers came from the u k we was mostly if not all british until other immigrants came here i am american born and raised but im 81% british by dna so in many cases we kind of see y'all as our cousins in a way of looking at it

Where Ash's arm is behind you in the beginning it looks like she's a ventriloquist! 🤣 The video didn't really mention much about what either the UK or the USA have stockpiled. I don't know exactly what either have but I did come across an article about the Ukraine recently that said something about that we sent 276 tactical vehicles to tow weapons but has tens of thousands in inventory. If we have that many tow vehicles, I can pretty much guarantee we've also stockpiled the weapons to be towed and I'm sure the UK keeps some caches tucked away too.

lol if the us threatened to take over the uk and make it the 51st state of the union, the uk would be like, WOO HOO! Our lucky day!

It wouldn't happen regardless. Brexit and British military downsizing can be connected in some small way to trust that the US will back the UK up whether through defense or economic connections. If anything, this video highlights how good a defense the US and UK would have together against a potential threat like china or russia For me this concept is very interesting due to US UK history. Not so long ago, the US was but 13 british colonies that stood hardly a chance against the mighty british. Now its like the son has grown up and never threw out his gym membership XD

Don't worry Brits, "Doctor Who" will save you😊

The deciding factor would be how involved British civilians want to be. Citizens may want to stay British, but is it worth dying to prevent American control? Not ideal, but it's not like the Americans would pillage the country. If the US only has to defeat the military with civilians indifferent, it would be over very quickly after invasion.

Us Americans love yall, you're basically like our cousins we'll always love and help whenever you need us

In the Hawkmoon series by Michael Moorcock, Britain has become an evil empire, but it's all post apocalyptic...

There isn’t anything in the short term that would cause us to fight each other. It would have to be a steady collapse of relations over years to the point where a fight starts seeming likely. Even at that point it would still take something major to cause war.

Fun thought exercise, but I would say that a conflict between these two countries are the least likely conflict to ever exist. I think that following 1812 things eventually became quite cordial and after WW1, these two were thick as thieves, even sharing in the nuclear program (both countries, I believe, use the same SLBM Trident II)

Fun fact, China has a 1.5 million man army, the USA has 100 million gun owners and none of us only have one gun 😊 good thing we are friends the UK😊

I used to think this scenario was not possible. After the US elected 1 POTUS that so many in UK did not like, seeing the reaction and actions of the UK that threw aside normalities & had no issues risking the relationship to act negatively against that POTUS and short-term vision, I changed my view on just how strong the alliance really is. I say that as a Veteran who spent yrs in the UK defending against all UK enemies, including what was at the time a UK domestic conflict. I would add the death of the Queen also greatly diminishes the strategic relationship to be more akin to how the US sees Germany or France than how it sees Japan as just an example. It is not so hard to imagine a decade or 2 of diminishing relationships that would put UK completely into a neutral value of friendship, not an enemy, but not exactly close allies. I can't imagine what scenario would drive the US to desire to invade UK proper, but I could see a scenario in which decades of diplomatic conflict would inspire an administration to view the UK islands just off the US southern border as being a desired space to own. This would most likely be done in local campaigns of civil unrest and supporting a secession w/a future Statehood incorporation than it would be a military invasion occupation and confiscation. There is also that British kindred to the Northern border of the US that would be desired as well. The US actually did have invasion plans drawn up prior to entering into WWI, so those ideals and ambitions are not so far removed from modern times to not have any relevance today. Again though, this would most likely be a diplomatic maneuver rather than a military campaign.

Roughly 20% of Americans claim Emglish ancestry, not to mention Americans that claim Scottish ancestry, the UK is definately safe from the US. Our countries are like siblings.

She speaks of cliffs and beaches and it not being easy to put troops on the ground. When all of your boats and planes are gone and the enemy still has more boats and planes than you started with, you have no set defensive positions. You will be forced from your defensive positions, or you will die there. You say, never in a million years, it's only been 248 years since we kicked you out and 212 years since we last went to war. A million years? With the right circumstances, it could happen in 10. Never say never.

Im sure imports to the UK would be strangled off. So if UK imports oil, war materials, etc….Stock Piles would shrink quickly.

Awesome. You are unable to defend yourself, while your government is additionally looking to ban knives. Here in the US it takes police over 45 mins to arrive. What should an individual do?

Britain wasn't doing the world a favor of fighting facism, as they were losing that fight. America stepped in and things changed. And, she's right, the world would respond and say "who does America or Britain think they are, but the difference is if America attacked Britain, it would be all over for Britain. if Britain attacked America, it would still be all over for Britain.

You guys need to check out" the fat electrician " you will like his videos he tells about different American military events from history

I always found it funny that the narrator of this video has a Russian accent. As if Russia was thinking "Hey, lets stir up some shit between America and the UK "

"eventually", you had me laughing my ass off. Japan forgot the Golden Rule, don't touch American's boats.

The UK & US would dominate if we ever band together again

Ferocious Alcoholics! I LOVE IT.

They don't have to the UK is already the 51st state.

We would never attack our Brothers and sisters in the U.K. It’ll only be side by side we fight together ❤🇺🇸🇬🇧

You guys are good together. On you tube. USA would never invade UK. We already did it when they invaded the colonies. We know how that turned out. Before airplanes. Brothers in arms

I understand that UK asked if the US would be a protectorate of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Tasmania

United Kingdom asked AMERICA if they would be the Protectorate of Canada, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania America told England is a goven

Speaking of Jersey, y'all might react to the Beesleys....

As I understand, the civilian population of the US is over 330,000,000 and over 90% to 95% of them privately own firearms of every type and caliber. And we determined to protect our families and our country and freedoms and our way of life. Any enemy attempting to invade our homeland will find it very, very difficult Add that number to our sworn law enforcement officers on top of we have miĺllions of professional soldiers. Invasion of the UNITED STATES would be next to impossible. The US is the most heavily armed nation on the planet!!

Realistically the US would never be able to hold the UK because it would be a hostile armed nation but militarily it would be a distinct victory. Also to ashes point of the harsh waters there are many different landing points that could be utilized by the US Military the reason the UK couldnt repel a US beach head landing would be because of the limited anti-air and artillery compared to the US numbers you have a to concentrate most of the UKs artillery and AA guns to just a couple strategic beach heads that are more important you would be forced to give up at least a few beach heads in order to protects the others also take into account that manufacturing would be limited due to continued US conventional strategic bombings. Thanks guys great reaction just wanted to give my opinion.

15:33...that's Binkov. 😐 😂

We didn't remove the Japanese emperor at the end of WWII, so I don't think that would happen in this impossible scenario.

Great reaction. And yeah we have a huge military and folks love to criticize the whole "you don't have free healthcare". Well if Europe had to depend 100% on itself to build up full militaries they wouldn't be able to have that either. For most countries their defensive strategy is "call the US". The war in Ukraine has at least lit a fire and more countries are investing more of their resources to both themselves & helping Ukraine and should be commended. But yeah this is an old video and there's way more than what's mentioned available & coming.

A kindasorta tangent: have y'all watched Reign of Fire?

It’s common for a American, 1 American to own hundreds of guns

one thing i see when i see these reactions from people outside the united states and gets worried about the US military. You often forget that while we are a military from America, a lot of us were born outside the US. I've served with soldiers from UK, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Africa, Philippines, China and countries like Uzbekistan all serving in the US Army. When we get judged as a military we are normally judged as the stereo typed "American" but remember unless they are Native American We have ancestors from around the world. So the idea of "we could if we wanted too" isn't really a thing. Most of us don't want to but will if we have to. almost the same concept as sleeping next to a pit bull you grew up with. I hope you are able to sleep soundly at night and feel safe. Stirring at night is fine but getting it angry without provocation is not advised. Rarely will we go for the throat but a lesson will be learned at the end.

The really intersting war game was the US for the entire world. ITs a pretty fair fight and could go either way.

"Blow-hole stuff" I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣

I agree with Dave 100% on "The Man in the High Castle": Great concept, but I couldn't even make it through the first season because the writers tanked it. The book is far better!

If we'd like the general population involved, the civilians of the US have 400 times more firearms than the _entire_ US military if memory serves. Keep in mind that our military doesn't play around. Now multiply that by 400. That's the civilians. We also don't have the Geneva Conventions. Civilians can't break international treaties. If you think we don't know how to make mustard gas with household cleaners, you've lost your mind. Nice to meet you. But, you're always a lovely ally to have. If anyone is close to us, it's you. And the Aussies(and Kiwis). The Canadians are on thin ice at the moment.

This wouldn't happen but an interesting thought exercise. We argue like siblings but end up together ❤️

I met a European here in Arizona last week and he was salty AF about Brexit. 🤷‍♂️

I know for a fact that people in the USA with British heritage is uner 10% of the population and almost want to say even though I'm not sure it's closer to 5%. So People with British heritage wouldn't even factor in 27:11

If UK remains UK than Never…But If it Becomes Something Else(You the Answer) then it may become a Threat because The Shared Values Are Gone.