Subject: Re: Cost asymmetry in modern warfare

We have renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War,

You are overseas; these inept moves were making the world snicker. I'm not sure they are snickering anymore.

Is your main point that it is a waste of resources? Not doing it invites war and a worse waste of resources. But yeah, in the eventuality of war we will back down. It is not just Taiwan. There needs to be a counterweight to China across the globe. Our military creates a dance for China's military. Human beings get wired not to go to war.