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Given that our past two wars lasted for decades, it's quite useful. And on top of this, no, any hot war with China goes the same way as a hot war with Russia: basic stalemate, or we all die. There's no chance a successful invasion for the mainland isn't responded to with nukes. On top of that...

I literally said that this was a tool only for hindsight analysis, good for predicting where future money should be spent, not lambasting past spending. I literally compared it to unused homeowner's insurance. For example, if there are a lot of deaths from enemy missiles, then yeah, we would...

The point here is my original point: SDI was nearly a complete waste of money. Some parts of it were salvaged, and used in things that still haven't been used much. The one example you have that's actually been used is the PAC-3, and that again, isn't beholden to the SDI, but a small part of SDI...

For the third time, a hot war vs the USSR, everyone dies. There's no need to be ready for it beyond nukes. Ready for a hot war vs some small country? That matters. Vs the Soviets? The only thing you need really is nukes. There was literally no reason for people to get into the weeds about which...

The use of nuclear weapons is the deterrence. They are a threat in being. THAAD is not. If we last without war til they get replaced? They were a waste of money. And yes, this is a valid way to look at stuff: things aren't valuable if they aren't going to be used. Extra defense for the US is a...

I know of this. I know of this probably better than most. I've worked in Huntsville area Military Contractors, on missile related projects. From just talking scuttlebutt, nothing class or CUI/FOUO, SDI was largely a waste of money, because those still haven't provided much military value in...

I mean, it could have been a furnace run solely on benjamin's, it would have still worked as long as the USSR copied them. Keeping ahead of the soviets didn't matter militarily. There was never going to be an actual hot war. That was the propaganda sold to the US public, because telling them...

The primary point of US military spending during the cold war wasn't to actually get a quality military. It's a nice secondary effect, but it didn't matter. The point of the US military spending was to burn money to induce the USSR to burn money, which it couldn't afford to do. It's why...