The US has a military more expensive than all other militaries combined.

Amd it's getting its ass kicked by Iran using cheap drones and home advantage.

The ideologies that call for ending social programs and buying military hardware instead have an incompetence problem that serves as a detrimental force multiplier.

Seriously. The smart generals that don't get discharged by authoritarian regimes quit.

Except, maybe Gerd von Rundstedt, because Prussians do not mutiny.