Contemporary US defense policy is almost entirely based right now on concerns of falling behind China technologically in the next 20 years. So no, we're definit

Contemporary US defense policy is almost entirely based right now on concerns of falling behind China technologically in the next 20 years. So no, we're definitely not over that. We were, but we swung back hard in the other direction, with present leadership convinced that going all-in on asymmetric warfare, counterinsurgency, and foreign internal defense training and assistance was exactly the wrong thing and terrorism is small beans in the grand scheme, and we should have stayed focused on long-term strategic dominance of near-peer adversaries. And it is illegal for the active military to do anything domestically. Different story for the National Guard, of course, and the police, so I guess we might want to neuter them technologically if there's a real concern the police are going to use murder dog robots to hunt suspects.