....In contrast, Washington failed to invest in fast sealift or high speed rail, leaning too heavily on military power.
For the last 25 years, America exhausted itself in deserts and mountains, fighting costly wars that drained trillions, cost thousands of U.S. lives—yet delivered little of enduring strategic value.
Worse still, the technology of war is no longer America’s private domain. Precision strikes, robotics, artificial intelligence, persistent surveillance from seabed to space—once rare advantages—are now widely available, even to mid range powers.
The oceans that once carried American commerce and projected US power have become potential minefields. To move lumbering, World War II style forces across the Pacific, Atlantic, or Indian Oceans today is not just dangerous. It borders on suicidal behavior.
History’s cruel truth remains: the last major war seldom looks like the next.
China and India together: $61.2 trillion — more than double the U.S. total. This is not a forecast. It is today’s reality.
