As always your insights are absolutely bang on and all kinds of terrifying. The West has an excellent collective military but that sort of thing won't matter if the modus operandi of enemy combatants changes. If the last major all-encompassing war was 1945 then things have drastically changed since then, heck... things are completely different from the Balkans stuff in the 1990s. God only knows what sort of war we might be dragged into - those in 1914 were pretty sure it was going to be bad, they didn't really know how bad it would be. :o/