This means that if another country's military is capable of ending a person's life, the USA must find a way to one-up that somehow. Otherwise both fighting forces are equally lethal.
What does she have planned? Do they have a weapon that can destroy the eternal soul?
The issue is that the US can't handle casualties so they have to use other countries as proxies. What need is there for actual people in the military? So they can sail to the red sea and get destroyed by a missile they can't intercept? Or send a ship to spy on Israel and die?
There was also a rumor that a US sub was attacked by a sonic weapon when it was near China and they were forced to surface.