An aberration. Great Britain was a little fuckin busy during that period, what with the existential threat of the hundred years war, and a largely inept King.

Great Britain sent only about 50k troops during the entire affair.

Had they not been so busy, it likely would have looked a lot more like all the times India tried to get uppity.

In the last few decades, a rag-tag group of goat herders and farmers managed to kick out multiple empires using only basic fighting equipment. This is all despite having air supremacy, satellite imagery, night vision, tanks, body armor, and a 10:1 ratio of troops.

The overwhelming majority of experienced combat veterans have been out of the US military for almost a decade. You can see this reflected it in how ineffective the current organization is.

If tyranny does strike the US again, I wouldn't want to be on the side of the tyrants.

40K Americans and lots of assistance from the French, including their navy.

The American war for independence was a proxy war between empires in which the colonies were pawns, and if not for one of those empires the American insurgency would have been crushed, regardless of whatever the myth of American exceptionalism has probably taught you.