The End of American Wars Abroad—and the New Battle at Home

The era of the United States launching massive military campaigns across the globe has drawn to a close. Hypersonic missiles, capable of striking with devastating precision at unimaginable speeds, combined with the overwhelming logistical challenges of deploying large armies, have fundamentally altered the landscape of warfare. The future of U.S. military strategy now lies in precision strikes, cyber operations, and covert missions—tools that achieve objectives without the need for sprawling ground invasions. Actions which can provide hard politics, but which cannot fight and win wars. This seismic shift brings a predictable twist: the powerful forces that once thrived on perpetual foreign conflicts will now redirect their efforts inward, posing a new and insidious threat to the nation’s stability.

The Dawn of a New Military Reality

For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the United States reigned as the world’s preeminent military superpower, projecting its might across oceans to shape global events. From the beaches of Normandy to the deserts of Iraq, America’s ability to mobilize vast armies was unmatched. But the game has changed. Technological leaps—most notably hypersonic missiles—have made it possible to neutralize threats from thousands of miles away, while the costs and complexities of sustaining traditional wars have become untenable. Today, the U.S. can only disrupt an enemy’s capabilities with a single, or well-placed set of strikes or cyberattacks that shuts down a portion of a nation’s grid, take key assets offline for some time, all without deploying a single division.

This evolution should herald a new era of efficiency and reduced bloodshed. However, it also disrupts a deeply entrenched system—one that has enriched defense contractors, empowered politicians, and fueled media empires through decades of "forever wars." As the battlefield abroad fades, these profiteers have turned their gaze homeward, sowing division and chaos to preserve their influence, perpetual civil wars and failed states will do just as well for arms sales. Understanding this shift is critical to safeguarding the nation’s future.

Seven Reasons the U.S. Will No Longer Fight Large-Scale Wars Abroad

The following seven factors illustrate why the days of massive U.S. military campaigns overseas are over:

• Hypersonic Missiles: The Game-Changer Explanation: Traveling at speeds exceeding Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound), hypersonic missiles are virtually impossible to detect or intercept. They can deliver devastating payloads with surgical precision from vast distances, eliminating the need for prolonged ground campaigns. Example: Picture a futuristic archer who can hit a bullseye from across the continent—no army required, just one perfect, unstoppable arrow.

• Logistical Nightmares: The Burden of Scale Explanation: Transporting and sustaining hundreds of thousands of troops, along with their equipment, food, and fuel, across oceans is a slow, costly, and vulnerable process. Modern adversaries can disrupt supply lines with ease, rendering large deployments impractical. Example: Entire carrier groups wiped from the Pacific by a single Oreshnik or a fleet of hypersonics, logistical transports eradicated, troop transport aircraft knocked from the sky by swarms of cheap drones.

• Technology Trumps Boots: Remote Warfare Explanation: Drones, artificial intelligence, and satellite systems enable the U.S. to surveil, disrupt, and destroy strategic targets without ever leaving home soil. These tools are faster, cheaper, and less politically fraught than traditional invasions. Though they have limited capacity and cannot be sustained against a nation, while a nation can sustain limited strikes but substantive defensive and surgical counterstrike capacities. Example: Think of it as playing chess with a computer that can predict several moves but not the entire game—you can effect a round of play, but not the ultimate outcome of the game.

• Cyber Supremacy: Invisible Strikes Explanation: The belief is cyberattacks can paralyze an enemy’s economy, infrastructure, or military command without a single shot fired. Power grids go dark, banks freeze, and communications collapse—all from a keyboard halfway around the world. However, the great powers of the world have been aware of this for as many years as we've been using it, and given the US no longer produces its own scientists and engineers, foreign powers are rapidly becoming far more advanced than the US. Example: Imagine flipping a switch that turns off a part of a enemy nation’s electricity and internet, while the enemy nation takes down our entire banking system. No tanks, no bombs, no declarations of war—just impoverishment.

• The High Cost of Chaos: Economic and Political Toll Explanation: Large wars drain national budgets and exhaust public patience. Swift, low-profile operations—like drone strikes or special forces raids—minimize financial and political fallout, but cannot win wars. Example: It’s the difference between sustained infrastructure and manpower destruction in a war and prepared narrative crafting talking points for the news—one’s a budget-busting ordeal, the other’s a quick, quiet fix.

• Public Exhaustion: No Appetite for Endless Wars Explanation: After decades of conflicts in places like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Americans are weary of prolonged military engagements. Politicians who advocate for them face electoral backlash, if not outright civil war and revolution. Example: It’s like an abused spouse no longer willing to take the abuse they’ve received for years—they’re done with it and are ready to fight.

• Covert Precision: Small Teams, Diminishing Impact Explanation: Elite units, such as Navy SEALs, Green Berets or Delta Force, can execute high-stakes missions—assassinations, rescues, or sabotage—with minimal resources and maximum effect, bypassing the need for large-scale invasions. However, these operations are vastly expensive and come with inherent limitations which cannot be overcome, the primary of which is that those capable of serving at the highest capacity in special operation are exceedingly rare and can't be replicated like machines. Example: Think of a master thief slipping into a vault versus an artillery battery blowing up the building—the first might make it in and out modestly enriched, the second couldn't even make it across the ocean to get on target.

These reasons and far more collectively signal the end of an era. The U.S. military is trying hard to adapt to a world where technology and strategy outweigh sheer numbers. But as the external battlefield recedes, as the Praetorians realize foreign wars are perhaps forever off the table, a new front is opening—one far closer to home.

The Internal Threat: When War Profiteers Turn Inward

The decline of large-scale foreign wars doesn’t eliminate conflict; it redirects it. For decades, a powerful triad—defense contractors, politicians, and media outlets—has profited handsomely from America’s "forever wars." With that revenue stream drying up, these groups are pivoting to a new target: the United States and the United Kingdom themselves. By fostering internal strife, the Praetorians, their Mob States and Devil's Legions will maintain their wealth and influence, transforming the nation into a battleground of division and distrust.

Who Are the Forever War Profiteers?

The Praetorians, Mob State actors and the Devil's Legions.

The obvious actors have long fed off perpetual conflict:

• Defense Contractors Role: Companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon earn billions from government contracts tied to military operations—contracts that shrink without active wars. Risk: A peaceful world threatens their bottom line.

• Politicians Role: Fearful citizens and wartime crises provide lawmakers with platforms to consolidate power and rally support. Risk: Without an enemy abroad, their relevance wanes.

• Media Outlets Role: Sensational war coverage drives viewership, ad revenue, and subscriptions—peace is bad for business. Risk: Calm news cycles don’t sell papers or clicks.

These profiteers and many more won’t simply fade away. Instead, they are adapting their playbook to exploit domestic instability.

Their Strategy: Divide and Conquer

To sustain their influence, these groups are orchestrating a perpetual state of crisis within America’s borders. By amplifying division and eroding trust, they will continue to justify bloated defense budgets, surveillance programs, and authoritarian policies—all under the guise of "restoring order."

How They Will Pull It Off

Here’s how this internal sabotage is unfolding:

• Funding Extremism Tactic: Bankrolling radical groups—whether far-right militias or far-left activists—to stoke tension and spark violence. Impact: A polarized populace is too busy fighting itself to question the bigger picture.

• Spreading Misinformation Tactic: Flooding social media and partisan news with lies, conspiracies, and half-truths to confuse and enrage the public. Impact: When truth becomes subjective, unity crumbles.

• Undermining Institutions Tactic: Attacking the credibility of government agencies, law enforcement, and independent media to dismantle societal trust. Impact: A nation without faith in its systems is ripe for exploitation.

• Exploiting Wedge Issues Tactic: Inflaming debates over race, religion, immigration, or guns to turn communities into warring factions. Impact: Division breeds chaos, and chaos is profitable.

The Stakes: What’s at Risk?

If these tactics succeed, the fallout will be devastating:

• Economic Collapse Persistent instability spooks markets, crashing investments, jobs and savings are wiped out, Capital flees to safer jurisdictions overseas.

• Antihumanist Regime The Malthusians which have for decades openly called for totalitarian surveillance state and massive depopulation get their way.

• State Collapse The Praetorians employ their $100 trillion war chest to support their Devil's Legions as a Praetorian threat to collapse the US into narco states.

The same entities that armed the nation for global wars are now become its greatest internal enemies.

A Call to Arms Against Division

The end of large-scale wars abroad should mark a victory for the United States—a chance to redirect resources toward innovation, infrastructure, and prosperity. Yet, this triumph is fragile. The profiteers of conflict, facing obsolescence, are now actively engaged in igniting a new kind of war—one fought not with tanks and bombs, but with fear, lies, division and assassination.

To protect this new era of peace, Americans must act:

• Stay Informed: Seek out facts, reject propaganda, and question sensationalism. Knowledge is power. Remaining calm is survival.

• Build Unity: Bridge divides with local neighbors, not walls. United communities are our only defense. Self-sufficiency is everything.

• Force Accountability: Scrutinize those who profit from chaos—whether in boardrooms, Congress, or newsrooms. Transparency keeps them in check. Civility is our worst enemy, now, and any who seek to profit off chaos and violence at home must be dealt with ruthlessly.

The choice is stark: embrace vigilance, solidarity and self-sufficiency to secure a brighter future, or let the vultures of war tear us apart from within. The end of foreign battlefields is not the end of the fight—it’s the beginning of a new one, right here at home. We got this!