What a load of bollocks. The US military, if fully unleashed to wage total war, would crush anyone. The problem isn’t with the armed forces it is with the political construct of ‘proportional response’ and misguided adventures in ‘democracy building’ in nations who could care less about it. Truman stopped MacArthur from expanding the war in Korea. Johnson, Westmoreland and MacNamara limited the military to a holding action in Vietnam. Iraq 2 was a stupid, misguided political decision.