[xetplan]

The biggest reason is because it is a recent ambition.

The US Navy on the other hand had to fight the Philippine-American War in 1899.

There is also no point in talking about forces in separation. There is a unification with the air force.

To me, to really understand the US Military, look up the B-2 spirit videos on youtube and look up the 4.5 megaton explosion video on youtube.

The full fleet of B-2 spirit have about 116 of 4 megaton explosions. These are 1 megaton bombs though so they have 400+ of those. 400 megaton bombs being dropped by an invisible UFO.

Then force projection to do what? Invade the US? We have enough guns to arm every man, woman and child in the US. It is estimated there are 12 billion rounds of ammunition sold in the US every year.

It is fun to talk about these things in the abstract but all out war with the US is basically delusional. The PLA has done an amazing job of catch up but to surpass the US you have to become the most deadly unified force that has ever existed. That is no easy task and Americans love war. There is not that many years in America's existence that it was not involved in war in some way.

[thisislife2]

The biggest constraint of the US military is manpower / personnels (active duty). That is why the US strategy after the Vietnam war has been to first economically weaken a country with sanctions before militarily invading it.

[hulitu]

> 400 megaton bombs being dropped by an invisible UFO.

They are not invisible since at least 20 years. Remember bombing of Serbia ?