"Now remember, brave and / or stunning troops: if a foreign army starts approaching our headquarters, we have a nearly endless supply of six-stripe rainbow speedos for you to throw at them."
I did not know that about you, Charles, but I am not surprised. You have a lot of wisdom to share and that comes with experience. I share your hesitancy of feeling safer today. Bizzarro world...
Indeed. It seems to me that the people responsible for forcing the military brass to embrace these changes, should be forced to 'walk the plank'. But then again I just might be a curmudgeonly old patriot.