Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense (foreign military aggression), speaking at the 2010 Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition boasts of the enormous naval arsenal at its disposal for intimidating the world:

• The U.s. operates 11 large carriers, all nuclear powered.  In terms of size and striking power, no other country has even one comparable ship.
• The U.s. Navy has 10 large-deck amphibious ships that can operate as sea bases for helicopters and vertical-takeoff jets.  No other navy has more than three, and all of those navies belong to our allies or friends.  Our Navy can carry twice as many aircraft at sea as all the rest of the world combined.
• The U.s. has 57 nuclear-powered attack and cruise missile submarines—again, more than the rest of the world combined.
• Seventy-nine Aegis-equipped combatants carry roughly 8,000 vertical-launch missile cells.  In terms of total missile firepower, the U.s. arguably outmatches the next 20 largest navies.
• All told, the displacement of the U.s. battle fleet–a proxy for overall fleet capabilities–exceeds, by one recent estimate, at least the next 13 navies combined, of which 11 are our allies or partners.
• And, at 202,000 strong, the Marine Corps is the largest military force of its kind in the world and exceeds the size of most of the world’s armies.

       Question: With such overwhelming firepower to pacify the world, why has the U.s. been at war more than any other nation in the 65 years since the end of the Axis War (World War II)?

       [added 5/4/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under orders from Major General Michael J. Walsh, commander of the Mississippi Valley Division, detonates the New Madrid levee, on the Mississippi River, flooding 130,000 acres of prime missouri farm land, and thereby destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of farmers.

       [added 5/4/2022] Thanks to G. Edward Griffin for this entry.