[timestax]

What's the authors point??

[sticker]

"What's the authors point??"

What normal people knew all the time, the media doesn't know its a@@ from a hole in the ground.

[spokeshave]

What's the authors point...?

Try this for size:

A culture of combat in which predominantly free individuals, possessing private property rights and civil rights, engage in a fighting style that depends heavily on both unit discipline and individual initiative; which simultaneously seeks close combat yet employs standoff weapons; which has unprecedented lethality; and which pursues unconditional surrender by the enemy.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Point is this. What was, is no longer, this is the new face of war.

At this time in history only the US can afford the means to wage modern war effectively, there is no other country with the economy to compete.

[wildbill]

What's the author's point?"

Yea, though I rumble through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the baddest MF in the Euphrates valley.