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To get back to the original topic...... there is no way on earth that the US military wants to transform most conflicts into guerilla type warefare it totally destroys the advantage of overwhelming firepower that the american military has. Sadly the other guy (country) needs to have his army stay around and fight which isn't particularly likely. Most of the countries which could plausably stand a chance or have the ability to inflict heavy casualties on the US military in a conventional armed conflict are either fairly staunch US allies, (NATO nations Austrailia and Israel) or are extremely interdependant on the US (russia, Ukraine{I think they may have joined nato I'd have to look it up} India, China). Special forces troops are not inexpensive and you can't really afford to disband or drastically reduce conventional forces as long as anyone else has some. Besides currently alot of US world power and prestiage is based on that advamtage destroyed by having low intensity conflicts all the time; their military power to anniliate any given nations military at most any time.
The only reason it is destroyed is because for some reason the US populace isn't into the whole idea kill everyone you can find and sow their fields with salt theory of warfare. I personally think this is a problem with the populace of the US projecting their personal desire for love and acceptance onto the country. It makes the US seem rather insecure to the rest of the world. That is fightening as well as the easy by which the US political system allows for fairly broad shifts in policy on an irregular basis which also tends to mystify the more glacial parts of the world when it comes to change.
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