None of this crapola is “war.” In war, you try to kill the enemy with extreme prejudice and you don’t waste time worrying about anyone who happens to get in the way. And you just kill them and kill them and kil them until they give up.
People should Google “bombed out Dresden” to see what war is. Or, Hiroshima.
What the USA does nowadays is expeditonary military/bureaucratic nation building operations that are open-ended and by and large pointless because they occur in backwater places that are inhabited by rabid mongrels.
What people call “war” should be called “great big wastes of money and (mainly) young American lives.”
Or, “stupidity” for short.
Nicely said, PaleoBob! This has been my point for years.