The author is a jackass. If our military was so all-powerful, then we’d never hear mention of certain points on the globe- Vietnam, Afghanistan come to mind.
According to the Small Arms Survey 2007, there are 88.8 firearms per 100 residents of the United States, 34.2 firearms per 100 residents of Iraq and 4.6 firearms per 100 residents of Afghanistan. We have 10x the population of Iraq and 10 x the population of Afghanistan. But we’re just going to roll over here in the US?