I have been saying this for the longest time! The American public are NOT long on conflict unless they see the enemy as an imminent threat - WWI/WWII.
Because of this and the US war fighting policies of “limited war,” the US is destined to continue to lose our war-power standing! Don’t get me wrong, China and Russia both know better than to mess with us, but these little piss-ant countries and people (Al Quieda, Venezuela, etc...) know that we are not going to actually invade, destroy all that needs to be destroyed and reside in every town - so they will just piss us off and then wait us out!
We are trying to win wars by using butter and beans (but those are being shipped right out to our enemies as fast as we give them to the towns), when we should be using bullets and bombs (so as to break the enemies’ spirit to fight)!
It is kind of like providing Embassy security without bullets or not using US Marines to guard Ambassadors - we are tying the hands of our military behind their backs and then sending them to war and wondering why we aren’t kicking the crap out of the enemy! FOOLS!
And then the draft too after we have a formal declaration of war.
“unless they see the enemy as an imminent threat - WWI/WWII”
What imminent threat were we under in WWI? So long as you avoided transatlantic ocean liners carrying ammo belowdecks you were fine. Okay, Japan was a threat. Not so much to invade the US, but they did attack us. What about the whole half of the war that was fought in Europe? Where was the threat there?