... it is all correct, fine and dandy--and I am not being sarcastic--you are right on all points, except for WW II, of course, but it is a feature, not a bug in the US ...
But let me remind you something:The first duty of the art of politics with respect to strategy is to formulate the political goal of a war. Any goal should be strictly coordinated with the resources available to achieve it. The political goal should be appropriate to one’s war-waging capabilities. To meet this requirement, a politician must have a correct conception of the relations of friendly to hostile forces, which requires extremely mature and profound judgment; a knowledge of the history, politics and statistics of both hostile states; and a certain amount of competence in basic military matters. The final statement of the goal would be made by the politician after an appropriate exchange of views with strategists, and it should help rather than hinder strategic decisions.
Trump is a showman who possesses zero qualities required of statesman, none of what is listed by Svechin as a minimum requirement, and as a result--no matter what is said, we are in the presence of a man-child afflicted by God-complex and utterly illiterate in military affairs and warfare, as is the case for the West's militaries on the so called "professional" level. There ARE NO strategists in the US on any level even remotely approaching levers of power and influence. The faces of American "strategists" are illiterate Keane, Kellogg or Petraeus. Carlson and Bannon better understand that and not agonize over a downright moron who finally adorned the White House. At least Biden had an excuse--he was a (barely) walking corpse. This is a process of unbecoming of a whole country which is nothing but Israel's slap-bitch. Support your local Christian Zionist, they wish you well, America.
