has there been any modern battles that the USA lost?

>>3104888
War for the Middle-East

>>3104896
That's a war not a battle you dumbass

>>3104888
>modern battles
can you be more specific on modern?
if it were up to me ill call the russo-japanese war a modern war

>>3104901
Sure, lets say 1980 onwards

>>3104903
then how about this fiasco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

>>3104903
Tactically speaking I can't really think of one, I'd have a hard time calling anything in Afghanistan a "battle" but I guess you could say the Battle of Mogadishu and Operation Gothic Serpent as a whole was a loss.

Then again its difficult to fight a battle when the whole point of the operation was for peacekeeping.

The initial clusterfuck in Fallujah?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan_Offensive_(2006)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala_provincial_headquarters_raid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Unsan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kham_Duc

Found one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah

>>3104900
In a war, battles are fought. You just lost one big ass battle, nitwit.

>>3104992
You can win every battle and lose the war, just look at vietnam. You can lose very battle and win the war, just look at the entire military history of britain

Tora bora was a win for the US but failed to take the objective.

A huge string of half-wins in Afghanistan.

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>>3104903
>>3104888
Nothing huge afaik but there were some rather insignificant defeats in WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_H%C3%BCrtgen_Forest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_Baum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Driant

>>3104903
The Beirut bombing is probably the biggest US military failure as a single incident. 241 American marines and 59 French paratroopers lost to an ambush by Hezbollah agents equipped with nothing but a large truck bomb.

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>>3104888

Battle of Mogadishu and Operation Red Wings are probably the most publicly visible. First Fallujah didn't go too well either.

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>>3104888
The battle of the bulge

>>3105009

savage

>>3104906

not really a battle now is it

>>3105894

First fallujah is yet another example of elan not being a replacement for preparation and combined arms

>>3107983

Doesn't seem like a failure of combined arms. More like a failure of intelligence, i.e. ignoring the protests of your generals on the scene and taking a too heavy-handed response to the Blackwater killings. This touches off a powderkeg, insurgents launch widespread attacks (having been waiting for their chance) and are handed a Tet-offensive style PR coup.

>>3107967
They won that one

>>3108047
You're talking about Vigilante Resolve right? I worked with a couple of guys who were in Fallujah for that shit show, its a good thing the Marines got their heads out their asses when they did Phantom Fury.

>>3104888
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ko%C5%A1are
Win the battle and capitulate. Let's give a standing ovation for the one and only NAZBOL government.