1, Black Hawk Incident, 1993, East African Somali warlords scuffle and people are displaced. In view of the serious humanitarian crisis in Somalia, the United Nations decided to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia. In order to defeat Aideed, the biggest reactionary warlord in Somalia, the US military seized the opportunity of Aided's meeting in Mogadishu and arrested Aided and his group members in one fell swoop. 1993. Clinton, then president of the United States, sent American special forces to prepare for a surprise attack on Aidid and his party. However, due to the intelligence error of the US military, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by Somali RPG rocket launchers during the operation, and 120 US troops were chased by Somalis in Mogadishu. The Black Hawk Incident is a rare failure case in American military history since the end of the Cold War. In this failed capture, although most of the US special forces were able to retreat unscathed, they were completely passive and could only wait for the arrival of rescue forces. America's "face" is really lost!
2. Pearl Harbor Incident, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and World War II officially broke out. Nazi Germany was invincible in Europe with "Blitzkrieg", and Japan, as an ally of Germany, also launched a war of aggression in Asia. On June 7th, 194 1, the famous Japanese soldier Isoroku Yamamoto assembled six aircraft carriers. The sudden attack on the Pearl Harbor base in the United States caused more than 2,000 American soldiers to be killed, 1000 injured, the aircraft carrier Arizona sank, the battleship Nedahua ran aground, and the United States suffered huge losses. The "Pearl Harbor Incident" completely angered the United States, unified the voices in the United States, prompted the United States to make up its mind to join World War II, and accelerated the demise of Japanese fascism.
The coalition forces of Britain and Canada burned down the White House. Now, we all know that the United States is a unique superpower in the world, and Canada and Britain are his younger brothers. However, when the United States was just founded, it was also a nobody, and it was "hanged" by the British and Canadian Coalition forces, and even almost burned down the White House by the British and Canadian Coalition forces. Since independence, the United States has gradually expanded its ambitions and strongly hopes to expand its territory. 18 12 In June, the United States marched into Canada and declared war on Britain. Under the attack of British and Canadian Coalition forces, the United States was losing ground. Finally, the British and Canadian allied forces invaded Washington and burned down the National Assembly and the Presidential Palace (later painted with white paint, hence the name "White House").