Related to another OP, should the US have entered World War II earlier than it did?

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31. The United States was not militarily ready for war.

We began our military buildup before we entered WWII. The draft was reinstated in September of 1940, but didn't actually get underway until mid-1941. Our buildup of military equipment started around 1938, but it takes time to build battleships and aircraft carriers, and to design and work the bugs out of airplanes.

Soldiers trained with sticks instead of rifles.

Our airplanes were hopeless obsolete.

Our torpedoes didn't work. This problem didn't get fixed until 1943. Many Japanese ship were hit with duds.

Look at this video, sometime between 1937-1940. The Calvary is still riding horses. The tanks in the video were already outdated. The artillery is being pulled by horses. The rifles are 1903 models, even though the M-1 Garand had already been adopted. (When the Marines invaded Guadalcanal they were still using the 1903 rifle.) Look at the planes - autogryos and biplanes - not a single modern fighter in the newsreel.

Look at this video newsreel from 1941. The Louisiana maneuvers. Old rifles, old planes, calvary on horses (After the Germans had chopped the Polish horse calvary to pieces in 1939.)

There is another famous video that I searched for and can't find on YouTube. It was a newsreel of the 1941 Louisanna maneuvers. It showed trucks with "Tank" painted on the side and soldiers using sticks to simulate machine guns.

If we had entered the war in 1940 Hitler would have died laughing. We were still unprepared on Dec 7 1941.