The military has a job.
It ain't building nations, restoring services, sharing democracy or any of that crap.
It's killing people and breaking things until the enemy screams "UNCLE".
Thats a very WW2 version of war, one that no longer holds true and one that no longer has much utility in the modern world.
this model of war only works well when 2 (or more) nations organised state armies knock the hell out of each other. Modern warfare is asymetrical and killing people and breaking things is ultimately self defeating.
how long did the US spend in Vietnam doing just that? to what end?
Did this approach provide much reward in Iraq? hell it was only when the US bought off the sunni insurgency (and allowed the shia ethnic clensing of baghdad) that the number of attacks dropped off.
in modern conflicts the people are both the battlefield and the prize.
