The United States plans to unveil later this decade a new conventional "Prompt Global Strike" (C-PGS) system. It will enable the US to instantly carry out a massive conventional attack anywhere in the world in an hour or less...."The US cannot take its current dominance for granted and needs to invest in the programs, platforms, and personnel that will ensure that dominance's persistence," wrote US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in a commentary accompanying the 2010 QDR entitled, "A Balanced Strategy: Reprogramming the Pentagon For a New Age".
the reality of Vietnam and the Middle East with their IEDs and partisan/insurgencies has evidently traumatised the US military and it is currently muttering about the glory days while sucking its thumb and staring into Space the distance. keep to the Fen Causeway