> How many British does it take to win a war none the US has to do it for them

Well, they certainly made Hitler think twice - while US isolationists and pacifists were doing all they could to keep us out of the fight (1939-1941).

And it was the Brits who drove the Japanese out of Burma. There was that Afrika Korps business, too, and sinking the Bismarck and all. Not too shabby.

In 1918 the Brits had to teach the Americans how to fight. Quite well, in fact.