What do you mean by win? And there are more countries in the commonwealth, AFAIK.

If you mean a military conflict, the US would win hands down, as long as we are not considering nukes - that would be everyone's end. But the conflict would probably be pointless, because the Commonwealth can't win and the US can't occupy these countries.

US... 3000 nuclear weapons can do a lot of winning.  Not to mention training, experience, complete command of the sea and air.  Throw in the best armored forces in the world to boot, and we aren't talking much of a contest here.  Also add in the fact that certain nations armed forces are designed to be modular and "slot in" with existing capabilities provided by the US under NATO auspices (looking at you Canada).  Pakistan and India would still be pretty distracted by each other and problems on thier respective flanks/near dissolution.

Commonwealth would eventuly win, excluding nucluer war were no one wins. For many reasons.

1) The size of the commonwealth, it would be imposible of rthe US to controll all of the territories and all of the people, the US simply would not have enought man power. But the commonwealth will not have such man power shortages and the size of the US is manageble.

2) Economic will make teh commonwealt once againt have more endurance in teh long run then the US. The US is indeed a big trading partner but in total it does not rival the size of the commonwealt nor the revenue it can generate. So should trading embargos be placed it's teh Us that will most likely be cut off and not the Wealth. A trade embargo on teh US would mean lost of problems for the US such as lack of basic needs witch coudl lead the contrie to civil war as it citizens will start fighting for food and what not.

3) On a diplomatic stand point Wealth contries tend to be alot more liked and appreciated on the world stage then the US is. This will make diplomatic relation with others easier for the Wealtha nd harder for the US since the US mostly has the best relationships with Wealth contries more often then other countries.

4) Ban wagon jumping. US one of the most hated contries in the world because of their actions they undertake around the world. So other nation likely to get involved in teh fighting are likely to side with the Wealth againts the US.

The US would initialy have the upper hand in that they have large forces all about the world. But individualy these forces are vulnerable and they would fall ratehr quickly individualy. this would knock out the US prime advanatge in the war. In other words the US is stretched out to thin and US generals them selves have already openly stated this out.

Silly question.

Both the USA/Commonwealth (esp. India) are so important for the global economy that any sort of conflict would be massively destabilizing for both sides. In a shooting war, it's debatable whether the UK, India, and Pakistan have a robust enough second-strike capability.

The US would lose most of its forces to friendly fire...

LOL!, Nice

Its a question which got stuck in my mind, if the commonwealth of nations were to unite back to the days before, would they still be a superpower? my ansewer is yes, even bigger then amercia, its easy to take over and control one nation, maybe even 3 for the USA, but the nations under the commonwealth are too vast,  and some have very large armies.

The USA advanatge of placement of there troops would be pointless, becuase of the placement of the commonwealth of nations. Canada would be the first to go, but if they recived help from Britain, then they would last or would be able to hold the USA for much longer. And not forgetting Britain has the best trained troops then any other country in the world, and the best special forces diverisons , e.g SAS, Royal Marines etc.

Our miltary force has downsized a lot in over a century, from being the biggest superpower in the world, to now the 5th in miltary expendienture, it should be Britain lending support to other nations such as soilders etc, not america, Britain owned 1/3 of the world, but somehow they let there reponisbilites slip, and becuase of this, they let Amercia take the lead Role.

God damn yanks, why did they have to revolt

An all out war between any nation and the US could result in total military and related infrastructure destruction within days.  The US hasn't done anything resembling an all out war since WWII.  There is no coming to aid and holding out anymore, that was antiquated with the modern jet and high grade explosives.  The air war could be over within an hour of beginning.  Europe couldn't even get there before it was finished.  There is no matching air force to stop it, no one even comes close.

I might put my money on the Brits for special forces, but there simply isn't anything short of nukes that those nations could do to stop a serious extermination bent at this stage.  Without including China and Russia in there, it's a completely shafted matchup.  You didn't even include France, they might not use it but they spend just as much as the UK does.  We spend more money than every other country combined if you don't include those two.  Even doing so, it's 42-58%.  We might even be able to wipe the floor with everyone combined since we're the only ones with a serious level of experience right now.  The US can't conquer worth shit due to manpower restrictions, but it could bomb a civilization into the stone age no problem at all.

Ten years from now it's probably going to be a different story though, since we'll all be living on welfare in ghettos trying to get the windmill farm on our roof to work...

The original poster assumes (the usual American assumption  ) that the queen is head of state of the UK, which while being technically true, is merely a ceremonial position with no power.  She still is actually head of state of most of the commonwealth countries anyhow.

one problem is that SunnyHawk lives in the UK

_|~Uber

Erm...thanks?

And lol @ Uber's point!

Commonwealth will win because of the Andromeda Ascendant...

Oooopssss... political topic... sory guys, but it relate it to the sins forum where i have see these post...