Here’s the link but honestly not worth reading
Except for this
Critics maintain that the rapid and large-scale expenditure of munitions has “wrung out” U.S. power and that Washington’s inability to subdue Iran sends a message of American weakness around the world. On the contrary, the war showed that the United States is still willing and able to engage in large-scale military action. Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot safely assume the Pentagon will stay on the sidelines if they attack NATO or Taiwan.
The war also gave the U.S. military the opportunity to practice. China’s People’s Liberation Army has not fought a war in decades. The Pentagon just conducted a months-long exercise in Iran of new tactics and technology that will be useful in a future conflict in Europe or Asia.
IDK… I don’t think the nation that has constatnly been at war for decades is in need of more opportunities to “practice”. Not fighting wars seems like that smarter thing to do. But what would I know? I’m not being paid 6-7 figures to write shit like this.
A lot of Americans in the military and political elite genuinely seem to think that they need to wage at least one major war every ten years lest they risk becoming too soft. They compare it to exercising and staying fit. “If you don’t use the military they lose their edge over time.”
To a normal person that just wants peace this mentality is hard to understand but this is how a lot of these people think.
playing eu4 and watching my military tradition tick down during peacetime and then declaring war on an OPM in africa just to feel something
I’ve known of people that would go around instigating fights on the street late at night to keep their skills up, the US is a drunk and racist street hooligan.
Also all the wars we keep fighting to stay in shape are against unorganized tribal groups with 60 year old aks and no air support. Turns out when it’s an actual army we can’t even carve out a foothold.
It’d be like saying you gotta stay in fighting shape for boxing so you head down to the local pre-k to roundhouse some toddlers and still somehow manage to break your foot in the process.
I’m sure getting owned by cheap mass produced drones and missiles was surely a learning experience that will help them fight a country that has the ability to mass produce…
Hypersonic missiles…