It is wise to be wary of someone who states that there is no need for something because the cause for it "no longer exists".
It is the same type of stupidity that rendered our fighter aircraft gun-less because air-to-air missiles made guns obsolete.
It is thinking like that which has rendered militaries impotent at times when potency was most needed, at the outbreak of hostilities.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't re-examine things. But neither should we assume that a strategic reason 'doesn't exist' just because someone says it doesn't.
“It is the same type of stupidity that rendered our fighter aircraft gun-less because air-to-air missiles made guns obsolete.”
100% absolutely correct.