Is The American Military Ready For The 20th Century?

It took me years to understand why US Cyber Command was originally housed in the Air Force. It was surprising to hear, as a software engineer – you probably don't need me to tell you, but nothing about these tasks involves altitude. I still don't

History has been a rolling sea of war and violence for longer than humans have existed. And yet, the 20th century had remarkable levels of relative peace, even including the world wars. If you exclude them... well, that isn't fair, is it? Sure, it

In researching this, I found something so good I feel like almost all of my own comments are be redundant. Please, read this Rand report about the history of American nation-building. It's only 17 pages, does a data analysis it didn't even occur to

I mentioned yesterday about the lack of visible sacrifice in the modern American military, extending so far that cost and investment are almost entirely unseen, even on the multi-trillion-dollar scale. Unless you'd seen an analysis, you'd never even be able to guess the full

Wars cost money. Lots of money, really – a fair model for mid-20th-century war efforts is that it would cost approximately the same amount that your opponents spend (modulo a field of adjustments, like it being cheaper to defend – but neither America nor Axis powers

I've been obsessed with this idea for days (and the broader questions for years), and I think it's time to admit it won't fit in a single post. This was a question I stumbled into myself, and one that seems important to ask: is