Joshcha Because aside from missiles, bombers, and carriers with aircraft, everyt

Joshcha
Because aside from missiles, bombers, and carriers with aircraft, everything else – meaning everything human scale – was irrelevant. It was the policing action of the gulf wars and twin towers crises (containing islam as we had communism) that returned us to traditional land based warfighting. Now we’re back to geostrategic warfighthing. And we no longer have the economic and technological advantage or population we did when we tried to end empires in the last century. In proper european tradition, we left the great transformation undone. So we left the world wars undone.

As for your ‘why-not’ question: the military isn’t a business – it can’t take novel risks without preserving present capabilities. It’s bad enough that no plan survives contact with the enemy. It’s worse if a technology you depend upon doesn’t.