Yeah, the DoD is designed and structured historically against super power-ish nation states, not insurgent, highly distributed, and non-state actors and modern

Yeah, the DoD is designed and structured historically against super power-ish nation states, not insurgent, highly distributed, and non-state actors and modern threats. This is part of why the whole “war on terror” initiative was another forever war effort from the start. Similar to re-orgs of companies as they grow starting to mirror their customers, DoD’s structure (albeit with privatization masking its massive manpower now) in the back office grows to meet perceived threats only from a militaristic view because that’s its entire purpose. As for the warships and physical warfare, they’re essentially a combination of a federal jobs guarantee and supply chain independence exercise we’ve long lost. In the event of a total war, I don’t think we’ll be able to get a lot of equipment we need made anymore. The situation is true for most of the other superpowers except arguably China