Ok, so 4000 dead soldiers makes a one-year war "endless." I understand completely.

No, the fact that conflicts never ceased under the articles makes the war "endless". By the way, it was a 10 year war, not a 1 year war.

And would it have been preferable if any colony could, itself, decide to start a confrontation? "in 1786 the Kentucky militia launched the first major frontier military action since the end of the Revolutionary War."

Holy cow, are you still copying and pasting stuff into this thread?

To save you the effort: I am familiar with US history.

> are you still copying and pasting stuff into this thread?

You bet. And I will keep on keeping on into the future. Though I've probably reached my limit for this back-and-forth.

Calling a 10 year war a 1 year war is "familiar with US history"?

Let's go to another confederated country as an example of what might have happened had the US stayed under the Articles of Confederation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzer...

It looks like, after the founding and expansion of Switzerland, they had to deal with a number of civil wars (at least one involving no conflict, though others had deaths), as well as periodic wars with surrounding great powers.

Lovely.