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The US government's practice of warfare relies heavily on two concepts: special forces raids and ubiquitous aerial bombing. Those special forces raids amount mostly to poorly thought out campaigns of terrorism, while America is still desperately trying to win wars through air power which is literally the pipe dream of the dawn of aviation and has never worked. People often blame US political leaders for choosing bad wars and that's not untrue but it's definitely cope. The US military itself is pretty captured by fundamentally flawed ideas about war, and to be honest I think that US political leaders are as mislead by US military leaders as vice versa. This idea that the US military would win like crazy if only the dumb elected civilians would stop using the military wrong is bordering on Clean Wehrmacht levels of apologia. Like yeah if you need twenty dudes in a bunker killed at the low price of dozens of millions of dollars, the Pentagon is unbeatable. That's not warfare, that's money laundering with a modest body count.