Why neutrality can work against you:

CW3 Kevin Storm — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:10:37 -0400

History shows the US had policies of Neutrality at the beginnings of WWI & WWII. In 1916 with the war in Europe raging, the United States had a visit from U-53. So bold was the Commander of U-53 he visited the local Fleet Commander, and gave tours of ship to the American Commander and his wife. Before the American Government could get its act together and quarantine the ship, he packed up and left. Subsequently he went out and sunk several vessels after that. All while American Destroyer stood by helpless to do anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-53

SM U-53 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

U-53 was ordered from Germaniawerft, Kiel in 1914 and launched in 1916. She was commissioned under her first commander Hans Rose in 1916.

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Oct 2 at 2015 12:12 PM

LTC Stephen F. — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:12:34 -0400

Neutrality has worked for the Swiss generally because of their location in the middle of Europe and in a mountainous area CW3 Kevin Storm.
Neutrality has not worked well for us since are nowhere near the combatants plus we played both ends against the middle by using our shipping assets to support nations involved in the fighting.

Response by SFC Wade W. made Oct 2 at 2015 12:17 PM

SFC Wade W. — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:17:23 -0400

Neutrality has not worked in the past and will definitely not work today. The world has shrunk with modern transportation and access to our country by those who do not like America is so much easier than in the past. I fear that we no longer look at history as a lesson but as a challenge saying "we can make that work now". If we decide to become isolationists who watch the world burn instead of being the firemen the burning will surely come to our shores and devastate our economy and the country we leave to our children and grandchildren.

Response by LCDR Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 2 at 2015 12:18 PM

LCDR Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:18:25 -0400

Neutrality only works if you truly have no reliance or interrelationship with the sides in the war. Something that is rarely the case.

Response by MSgt James Mullis made Oct 2 at 2015 1:12 PM

MSgt James Mullis — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:12:58 -0400

Neutrality means that you relinquish to "others", the power to act in your best interests. This works "only" as long as your interests coincide with those of the "others". A much better policy is to let the "others" know both what your interests are and that you "will" take actions to defend them. Of course, you have to be capable of actually defending your interests, which means pre-deploying forces around the world.

Response by SPC Christopher Perrien made Oct 2 at 2015 5:46 PM

SPC Christopher Perrien — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:46:06 -0400

This makes no sense. There is and was no reason for the USA to become involved in WWI or any other "Foreign War". This was one of the great ideas the original founding fathers believed in particular George Washington.

Please name me why we went to fight in WWI? I tell you why because the banks gather together to form the Federal Reserve System got Wilson to declare war. The banks of America were concerned that their loans to the Allied powers would either no be paid back or that they would suffer a loss of profits on those loans in they were repaid back at a later dat or lesser rate given a Central Power victory.