When a State relies on mercs to fight its wars, they are in trouble. The Mercs eventually start taking over the State.
We will regret this.
The problems we have is that American men lost their sense of duty and the American people have no concept what our position in the world requires.
Ever since Vietnam, the vast majority of young men see military duty and the risking of lives as “somebody elses problem”. They have better things to do. It’s left to the bare 1% to suffer through the training, the deployments, and sometimes, death.
We are a “superpower” which means that everyone else wants what we have and would only be to happy to see us obliterated. We have to fight people in crappy places so we don’t have to fight them here. Wars, particularly wars where we are trying to protect innocent bystanders take years, decades to win. We are still hanging around Japan and Germany 70 years after WWII because even full-time general wars take a long time to finish.
Now we have 99% of our men that don’t have military skills, don’t know how to fight as a team, and worst, don’t know if they had what it takes.