All the people who came of age in the post9/11 Bush years and watched the failures of Obama's foreign policy are now employed in the lower echelons of the state and are not buying anti-insurgency spending (not counting internal police spending). Now it's all about China and developing power projection.
EDIT: The transitory phase of a crumbling empire where insurgency tactics are turned inward and outward power projection is amplified to a series of points.
All the people who came of age in the post9/11 Bush years and watched the failures of Obama's foreign policy are now employed in the lower echelons of the state and are not buying anti-insurgency spending (not counting internal police spending). Now it's all about China and developing power projection.
EDIT: The transitory phase of a crumbling empire where insurgency tactics are turned inward and outward power projection is amplified to a series of points.