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comment by tehstone
tehstone  ·  3326 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the World’s Biggest Military Keeps Losing Wars

    how can America spend more on its military than all the other great powers combined and still be unable to impose its will on even moderately sized enemies?

I'd argue that to an extent, that level of spending buys the kind of force that prevents wars from starting. It's a tough call to start a war with an American carrier group in the neighborhood and your own country's entire military is less capable than that single carrier group.