Hmmm! Once again excuses, excuses, excuses for American military incompetence and failure.
Vietnam becomes, not a war, but a weapons testing exercise. Can't blame the military for losing in Iraq--and soon in Afghanistan--because "Few armies of great powers have ever won a war against a guerrilla force that came from the populace and land the battle was fought in." So I guess that war doesn't count. Soviet victory over Germany in WWII doesn't count because the Soviets lost so many men, and by the way the Allies provided some supplies.
Apologists for the U.S military sound like Hillary Clinton explaining why she's beating Barack Obama in the Democratic primary.
The facts seem to be that the U.S. military cannot prevail in a war unless it's confined to the use of air power. Once the troops are on the ground, failure is imminent and assured. That's history, that's reality.
For the most part, the U.S. military has become a massive scam to bleed the American people of as much money as possible by selling them shoddy goods and services at exorbitant, gouging prices.
Marketing, that's what the U.S. military and their business cronies are really good at: convincing the American people that it is a wonderful institution protecting them from the boogey men. Woo, scary, kids, a cave dwelling terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is going to kill millions of American children in their beds, that's why we need a nuclear submarine. Yeah, right! Indeed, the U.S. military has departments whose job is to convince the television and the movie industry to propagate the myth. Don't make the right shows and you can't use their aircraft carriers for your location shoot.
Do you really believe that the
U.S. needs to spend 51% of the federal budget on defense? If you do, you deserve to be fleeced over and over in the spirit of that other great flim flam con man P.T. Barnum.