But what's the limit, especially when there is no sign "the next big war" is imminent or big?
If we assume that we'll have a Ukraine-like scenario, then we might as well start with nationalizing industries like US steel, snatching "untrustworthy" residents to put them into internment camps, start rationing how much food people can eat, and... Heyyyyy waitaminute...
If you listen to generals and admirals for the past few years, much of the US military force alignments and procurements have been around fighting on islands in the Pacific...
This is why the US Marines don't have tanks anymore.
Does anyone believe these changes are being made for some sort of pragmatic reason? I feel like I'm insane. This administration is doing so many grifts how does anyone take what they say at face value anymore?
That's a strange way of saying "one person who is a direct lackey of the President".
> only ever does things for one purpose only?
Oh, the career-employees do other purposes... But a big one right now is "avoid capricious weirdos killing my entire career out of spite". That isn't a mission-oriented purpose we should be happy about.
It's wiser to enact change before the next big war happens and the same exact failures pop up in the US MIC too.