It seems to me that the Iraq war clearly show the utter uselessness of building anything except nuclear and biological weapons. For any middle grade power, wasting money on conventional armaments is pointless: Iraq spent more on its military than any other middle grade power is ever likely to be able to spend, yet all that money and effort was completely worthless against either the United States or Israel.
Today only technological and numerical superiority in the air count for anything in conventional warfare. And no one except China, Russia, Europe and, maybe, India have the capability to achieve numerical superiority against the United States. So the only weapons capable of detering US attack are nuclear and biological weapons. And if you can deter the United States than you can deter anyone.
So spending huge amounts of money on Migs, Mirages or Hornets is stupid. They aren't worth anything. If you attack anyone else, the UN will make you pay more than you are willing to. If the US, or anyone else, attacks you, they are useless. The US will take no casualties, and an attack by anyone else will simply result in a war that makes the value of you initial weapons expenditures seem trivial compared to the cost of nuclear/biowarfare deterence----- all in a war in which it is now impossible to gain anything in the way of territory or reparations due to the UN.
Nothing short of nukes or bioweapons is worth anything anymore. Only they have deterent value, so buying anything else is pointless.
Today only technological and numerical superiority in the air count for anything in conventional warfare. And no one except China, Russia, Europe and, maybe, India have the capability to achieve numerical superiority against the United States. So the only weapons capable of detering US attack are nuclear and biological weapons. And if you can deter the United States than you can deter anyone.
So spending huge amounts of money on Migs, Mirages or Hornets is stupid. They aren't worth anything. If you attack anyone else, the UN will make you pay more than you are willing to. If the US, or anyone else, attacks you, they are useless. The US will take no casualties, and an attack by anyone else will simply result in a war that makes the value of you initial weapons expenditures seem trivial compared to the cost of nuclear/biowarfare deterence----- all in a war in which it is now impossible to gain anything in the way of territory or reparations due to the UN.
Nothing short of nukes or bioweapons is worth anything anymore. Only they have deterent value, so buying anything else is pointless.
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