[Skybird]

Zweckoptimismus. If your strongest tool is a military, then you tend to ignore your vulnerablities in other sectors the military is ill-suited to protect. Maybe that military can bring exlosive damage to the other, then - but of what use is it for defending your own home and civil structure? The price for a war today is not measured in blood only, but also in economic damage, and any ethical aergument pro or contra a war is simply outclassed by economical arguments for or against wars. Since years I argue that here is the wide open, sore archilles heel of the West in general and the US in special. And the Chinese have focussed on that since a long time, with regard to their financial policies, economic policies and trade and allying diplomacy with the third world - and now their cyber warfare possibilities as well. Only fools could think that the only way to measure a country's power is bombs, tanks, planes and cruisers only. That simply is extremely short-sigthed.