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I think the problem is the huge cost of useing million dollar bombs and missles to fight armies that live in cages and have often times very basic training. Had we , before afghanistan and Iraq spent more money and training, and development of new training ideas...and less on anti missile shields, ships the navy does not want/need, and many wasteful programs...we could have been much better off. Our current army is to dependant on technology and billion dollar weapons..that should a time come of protracted war against a major enemy ...we will spend outself to death before we can win the war. A good book on this was "the sling and the stone" by Col. Thomas Hammes. New training, new outlook on security, and I think much better suited to the wars of the next 20 years or so.