[nostrademons]

Against adversaries whose industrial base and social structures are 200 years behind us. That gives us weapon systems that are adapted to fighting adversaries whose industrial base and social structures are 200 years behind us.

We've been very lucky (in a sense) that ambitious leaders who actually can get technologically-savvy workers to follow them generally prefer to work within the American system and fight over ad clicks, purchases, and management fees rather than physically making war. I'm not all that confident that the U.S. military would win vs. say SpaceX, Amazon, or Google. Moot point as long as it's more profitable to sell things than take things, but we would be very screwed if we fought an adversary with peer-level technology, population, and manufacturing base.