Fully agree. And I do not see superiority today. They have never been battle tested, but the Chinese are a deadly serious bunch.
No one can look at the DEI infested senior military leadership and think we are superior.
It reminds me far more of our military of the late 30s. We had a steep learning curve for WWII including some bad bloody noses early on. Kasserine Pass, the night battles with the Japanese Navy in the Slot, our early 8th Air Force missions.
At least then we could blame our initial ineptness on the depression, and that after WWI, nobody dreamed it would happen again.
Today we will be forced to blame it on greed, DEI, strange social experimentation, and overreliance on gold plated systems rather than steel backboned men.
As for being battle untested, most of them came out of two twenty year engagements, and neither can be claimed a victory, sadly enough.