So much of the military budget is just funneling money to contractors as opposed to actually getting results. The F-35 is a joke. The last time the US military was actually tested by a strong opponent was in Vietnam, and was now 50 years ago. And the US lost that one. I'm wondering, if there was a conventional, non-nuclear war with say China in a few more years, is it possible we'd see the shocking result of the US military getting absolutely embarrassed. I mean, it's obvious I think that the US wouldn't win that anyway, but I'm talking about like, the world realizing all the trillions spent on the vaunted US military didn't really mean much and other than the nukes, the US is actually militarily weak?
That was our experience there basically lol. If they could call in airstrikes I imagine we wouldn't have done too well by nature of being a normal section with normal section level equipment. I imagine their opening gambit and long-term strategy would rely upon air support heavily if they ever had the gall to invade a country with a functional military. It would have to because the rest of their troops are so bad.
You can look at what was done to Iraq in 1991 to get an idea of the US military's idea of opening moves.
See also Korea and the crazy amount of bombs being dropped there. Same with Vietnam. The US is an air based military force.