Indeed. The most powerful military in the history of this planet, bar none.
You had heard that we integrated it some half century or so ago, I presume?!
Integration and Segregation have had their day. Those fights are over. The culture wars today are about far more fundamental things than mere social mixing.
As this article points out, there is a marketing of evil. Oh, the people doing the marketing don't really think that it is evil. In fact, they think that it is moral, based upon relative situations. But moral relativism *is* evil.
There is also another battle, another culture war. That culture war is being instigated by a dying Middle-Eastern culture that has been preaching against letting science learn the truth or question certain ancient beliefs.
The moral relativists on one side and the dying wahabists on the other both see their end if the current round of successful Conservatism continues to prevail.
The moral relativists want to justify all pleasure. They don't want to be held accountable for their lies in business and politics, either. And to weaken us, they want to see an end to the very structures that buttress our Conservative society (e.g. the nuclear family, the local church, public religious displays, prayer in school, marriage itself, rational public debate, free flowing raw news information, etc.).
The radical wahhabists want to weaken us by attacking our economy, our military, our civilians, and our public opinion. They want to turn our allies against us and they want to kill us whenever they can, however they can.
But neither of these foes has the structure to win the long fight. Moral Relativists invariably disdain the nuclear family, preferring short-lived relationships centered around temporary pleasure...hardly the stuff of a strong society. Likewise, the lies and carnal pursuits of the moral relativists distract and detract from any progress that moral relativists may make against us.
For radical wahhabists, their core structure is centered around an unquestioning obedience to the past. Science that dares question Allah is forbidden. Death edicts are written for the slightest of questions (e.g. against Salman Rushdie). Entire nations under such rule go centuries without a single new patent or medical discovery. Again, that's hardly the underpinnings required to take us on.
But both of the above cultures do feel threatened. They are lashing out right now, big time, because they can sense their own end. They know that we are winning, and they can't stand it.
And those are the battles of today and for the near future. Segregation and Integration were the last war. Lets not re-fight it.