For those of you who aspire to greater things, here is just what you need: your own submarine base. This could be a vacation resort for people like Kim Jong Eun, Hugo Chavez, or Robert Mugabe. You could come and go unnoticed. Who wouldn’t want one of these.
I served 4 years active much in an elite unit and 3 more in the reserves during Vietnam as an officer and I belong to a couple of military associations with members still on active duty. So I can tell you with certainty that the destruction of the military and NASA through BRAC and reduced budgets for advanced weapons will have a heavy price to pay soon. Military policy is set by the President and those in the military are not allowed to comment on it e.g. Gen Stanly McCrystal a couple of years ago. So the public is not aware of what is being done. American military presence is what has kept the world out of a major war since WW II. As we pull back a power vacuum is formed and others will move in. The tech is nice but it also takes having the resources to back up that tech. Boots on the ground as we found out in Iraq are required.