Before any nation can even begin to approach the US in production of any real military capability sufficient enough to be more than a speed bump they'll have to first:
Develop a culture of entrepreneurial and creative problem solving excellence.
Develop a massive post secondary education system tied directly to massive research and development systems.
Develop an economy that is, for example, robust enough to not only dominate and influence the entire global economy, but also resilient enough to be cut nearly in half through a catastrophic attack and rebound to even higher levels in just a couple years.
Do all that and then have a reason to have a big military and maybe, someday.
And to those who join in on the leftist sponsored whine fest concerning the GWoT (I am also very much a fan of the TWAT concept), those of us who are familiar with Counter Insurgency but not main practitioners (spec ops) who define themselves through CI type warfare have been harshly against the general "kinder gentler" CI setup for exactly YOU as a reason.
That the weak, stupid, impatient, mindless regurgitators of hostile propaganda, moronic, brain dead, dumbass and degenerate cowards that so dominate the population remaining on "the home front" would be manipulated by a hostile media was well understood and predicted.
There are all sorts of ways to fall to treason, some by purpose and some simply through shear idiocy and spinelessness.
Death to all enemy! Foreign and Domestic.
Develop a culture of entrepreneurial and creative problem solving excellence.
Develop a massive post secondary education system tied directly to massive research and development systems.
Develop an economy that is, for example, robust enough to not only dominate and influence the entire global economy, but also resilient enough to be cut nearly in half through a catastrophic attack and rebound to even higher levels in just a couple years.
Do all that and then have a reason to have a big military and maybe, someday.
And to those who join in on the leftist sponsored whine fest concerning the GWoT (I am also very much a fan of the TWAT concept), those of us who are familiar with Counter Insurgency but not main practitioners (spec ops) who define themselves through CI type warfare have been harshly against the general "kinder gentler" CI setup for exactly YOU as a reason.
That the weak, stupid, impatient, mindless regurgitators of hostile propaganda, moronic, brain dead, dumbass and degenerate cowards that so dominate the population remaining on "the home front" would be manipulated by a hostile media was well understood and predicted.
There are all sorts of ways to fall to treason, some by purpose and some simply through shear idiocy and spinelessness.
Death to all enemy! Foreign and Domestic.