You were only supposed to use the $2M missiles to sink $1B ships or shoot $100M aircraft out of the sky and you can afford the missiles a lot more than the other guy can afford to lose ships and planes.
Problem is that cheap drones change the equation. You can't afford to shoot at the drones and you can't afford not to.
So, the reality should be, you make us spend $2M shooting down a useless drone. We will use another $2M missile to take out a $2B asset of your. Iran, we will start with oil wells and military bases. But it's against our doctrine to go for countervalue, which is like trying to play penny anny poker with solid gold chips. You can only lose.
I was talking more about not being able to rearm at sea, having to go into port to rearm.
That’s nuts in a global conflict.
Hell, it’s nuts in a limited regional conflict, as we are seeing.
I guess same planners that made the Abrams tank too heavy to operate in most of Ukraine, and so maintenance intensive and fuel consuming it takes a logistical army just to keep it operating.