No they are not tough at all. We should coast on our reputation for a while. Hopefully our leaders are smart enough so we won't be seeking a major conflict anytime soon. But sometimes you have to fight (Civil War, WW2). It'll be interesting to see what happens by then. Our military was small during peacetime just before Pearl Harbor but we were able to mobilize relatively quickly.
We are checkmated in so many ways when it comes to our military, for instance, the draft, if it was implemented it would only serve the left, as they used it to accelerate the rush to 50% female and all the other quotas they desire, it would not be used to turn over a mass of 18 and 20-year-old males for the drill sergeants to reshape in a few months.
I know people talk about a war with China being of limited size on land and mostly Air and Sea, but things could break that package and turn it into a much larger conflagration that involves the Army destroying land battles that we are talking about, that is one reason I want reduced threats and stronger allies on our flanks and rear.
You may have seen me mention this before, even several times perhaps, but when Pearl Harbor happened, Reagan had almost 5 years in the Reserves and my dad was in the Navy in Borneo.
I didn’t mean to drag you into a discussion, and I generally really dislike getting into wordy exchanges, I guess I am mostly just thinking (or complaining) out loud but this has just about exhausted my writing energy, I kind of wish some of the history we are living through would have come along later, but all times are rough in their own way.