Dead men can’t pull the trigger on an RPG. Better plan.
OK, so defend the billion dollar planes with 1,000 soldiers, the cost of the deployment of which is about $1 million each a year, so it doesn’t matter that the enemy can’t blow up the planes ‘cause we’re going to spend that billion dollars anyway.
And for this we get what?
Oh, wait, wait, I know, the satisfaction that the debt issued by our government is being downgraded, our people’s standard of living is falling, and in spite of 35,000 health professionals in the military and handing out meds like candy, suicide among our soldiers is their number one cause of death.