Barack Obama and his government (incl. SECDEF Robert Gates and Admiral Michael Mullen) wrongly believe that America will never again wage a conventional war. They wrongly believe that America will never fight China, NK, Iran, Syria nor Venezuela. My fellow critic of Obama, J David Patterson, reports that the opinion of the Obama government is that
“President Obama campaigned against what he called unneeded Cold War era weapon systems, and cancelled the F-22 – because there was no use for it against the Taliban and such. And no, of course, we’re not going to fight any conventional wars any more.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35578
The Obama Administration is wrong. America will wage many future conventional wars – against China, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. All of these states are sworn enemies of the US.