This is a pretty shallow analysis. Bill Lind has done some deep thinking on why the US military can't win modern wars (tldr: the armed forces are a graft syste

This is a pretty shallow analysis. Bill Lind has done some deep thinking on why the US military can't win modern wars (tldr: the armed forces are a graft system, not a war system; no one has figured out how to fight non-state and semi-state wars without going full roman burn-and-crucify.) I highly recommend his articles and books, particularly to people on the left who might be initially put off by his social conservatism.