This is the way it has always been for the US Military, up and down. Anyone who has studied our Military History knows this. Unfortunately the hard lessons we learned in WWII have been lost as the generations have passed.
In 1942 the prewar US Army and Navy was hampered by poor equipment and leadership, languishing due to a “peace dividend”. This Army and Navy was sacrificed in the places like the Philippines, Guadalcanal and North Africa.
By 1944 most of the old Army and Navy was gone and a new generation of weapons and leadership came forth creating a combat power that the world had not seen before.
The campaigns of late 1944 and 1945 were brutal and losses were very high but eventually we learned.
The US has always had very strong isolationist tendencies and even during WWII this constituted a very strong minority. Modern history instruction glosses over this.
Today 70 years later the isolationist’s are now in the majority and many of our people actively scorn those who serve. The so called Police Actions over the last 70 years have not helped and our population has forgotten what a war of annihilation is like. The world has not.
The upshot is the because of the extremely poor political leadership, of which Obama is but a symptom not the cause, our enemy’s will miscalculate and start something that will quickly grow into another war of annihilation. The current Army, Navy and Air force will be decimated and a new generation of young people will have to step in and fight.
There is an old Russian saying “feed your army or someone else’s”.
Unfortunately, in a modern war, we will not have that much time to rebuild a military that can fight effectively. When Obama is finished, he will have left the US open to conquest or destruction which fits nicely with his plan to advance Islam’s conquest over the West, especially Jews and Christians.