[NMEwithin]

Rather, we have engaged in a half century of half measures, in which we have deployed our military repeatedly but never actually used it once.

As a combat vet myself, I whole heartedly agree with this...

[Netz]

Instead of fighting to win and that means killing the enemy in large numbers (not politically but strategically correct) the US and other countries (like Israel) have been waging not war but “conflict management”. Due to this concept, the good guys draw a stalemate at best...