“We need to remember how utterly huge is the difference between America’s military and the rest of the world COMBINED.”
So how many more troops do we have compared to the rest of the world ‘COMBINED’? How many more ships than the rest of the world ‘COMBINED’? How many more planes?
Or, if you want to go back a step, replace “rest of the world ‘COMBINED’” with Russia plus China.
We don’t need more troops. We have more experienced and more effective troops than everyone else.
In terms of effectiveness our only competition are the British.
In terms of ships - the USA has more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world’s navies COMBINED. If we take just the navy we can defeat the rest of the world’s navies combined without breaking a sweat.
In terms of planes, the USA has far more effective planes than the rest of the world combined.
And by combined I mean Russia + China + UK + france + everyone right down to Leichtenstein