[Scythian]

Hmmmm .... You don't say ...

[hoagy62]

That’s just a GRAVITY bomb. We got a ton more on the missiles in the silos, Vlad.

Don’t even THINK about it.

[Red6]

Dictatorships and authoritarian centralized type regimes as in Iran, China or even Russia today have the same people in power over a long time and their national agenda as well as their strategies don't change that much. America is a nation where you really have no strategic vision (we just throw buzzwords around) and no consistent long term unified approach to anything. The bad guys take us apart or “win” because of this.

What has Iran's agenda been since 1980?

What has China's agenda been regards Taiwan since the 50s?

It not the fighting men and women of our armed forces, it's the political games/process and social fads as well as hedonistic and shortsighted public that is to blame. On the field of battle we do well, we even do well nation building, until it becomes “political.”