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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can a country like Iran run circles around the mighty USA?   I was always told all that money we spend on defense was to maintain the strongest and best military in the world, yet look at the disaster we are watching now.  Iran can hold off the US with some dinky rockets and a large number of cheap drones.  We can't evem send in our mighty navy into the straight of Hormuz without risking losing very expensive ships to cheap drone attacks.

So is the US military weak and overrated?  Yes, I'm sure we could pound Iran into glass if we really wanted to, but strategically it isn’t always possible to do that.  The US military seems to be built for outdated styles of combat, and a style of combat that is ridiculously too expensive.  How have they not replaced expensive aircraft carriers with cheap drone fleets, or responded to Iran's cheap drones with our own cheap drone swarms rather than blowing $5b a week on missiles they can't keep enough of?   Has the US military become obsolete and massively overpriced now that Iran and Ukraine show how you can battle way larger and more expenive opponents for a fraction of the price?  For how much money we pay, the results currently seem very underwhelming. [/quote]

My very limited understanding is that an offensive war taken millions of miles away without any real objective is kind of hard to win. Defensively, our advantage is that Canada and Mexico or the sea are the only entry points. But yes, war has changed (see Ukraine) but again, we have a CIC who wants to go back to battleships.

UK already went through this and while they were out imperializing the US was building itself and the economy. China is now the US and we are UK. Why are our tax dollars not able to go to healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc? But we have the funds (no we dont we are borrowing) to wage war because of "pre emptive" strike, supposedly.

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