In perhaps the preeminent demonstration of the undisputed fact that the U.S. military feels that overkill is underrated, the combined navies of the wider world have less than one-tenth the power projection capacity of the U.S. Navy. A global inability to impose norms on the region will guarantee a decades-long global depression as well as ensure a succession of woefully inadequate efforts by a half-dozen powers—Japan, the United Kingdom, France, India, Turkey, and China—to salvage . . . something from the bloody chaos. It’s going to be a mess.
