14 billion dollar waste of money

That’s only because the C-I-C won’t let the Navy utterly destroy them as they should.

There’s nothing to destroy

There’s always something to destroy. Training camps, supply routes, comms, individuals…there’s always something that can be destroyed.
That’s what a military is for… to kill people and destroy structures to the point that the enemy either quits or is utterly annihilated.
Its not for “regime change”.