The expedient fall of Baghdad was a signal to Coalition commanders that the network-centric style of warfare adopted by the U.S. military had achieved victory. Yet the looting of the Iraq Museum still resonates as a defeat.

Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein

The Americans insisted and we are not in a place where we can refuse them. We rely on them for planes and military equipment. What are we supposed to do? Tell them no?

The Western nations have four arms-defensive and offensive-the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Church.