I see the country's involvement in war as an inevitability born from the continued evolution of the military industrial complex. Like any organization, a primar

I see the country's involvement in war as an inevitability born from the continued evolution of the military industrial complex. Like any organization, a primary goal of the military is for it to self sustain. To reduce its size to a level suitable for peace time you'd need to fight back against so many incentives to keep things the way they are. It's a Herculean task. This pressure to scale it back was supposed to come from Congress but it's no secret that the public's faith is in Congress's ability to do their job is at an all time low. So now you always have to have a conflict. Slowly the bar for what merits involvement gets lower. Other comments here have echoed my fear that the bar may get so low that the focus to find a suitable enemy turns inward.