Those in the vast middle will be sent out to save the day. And in order to prove our good intentions concerning all things warlike, we should have maintained a minimum military that would under no uncertain terms suggest to any nation that we, the United States of America, had hostile intentions toward any nation, good or bad. No doubt, that had we taken these clearly defined steps of peace toward all nations in the thirties, the forties would have meant peace and prosperity in America. And in the long run, earth would be a better world for it. They tried that already, it didn't entirely work.
War is a waste of potential for everyone from intelligence officers to ditch diggers.
It is an across the board losing proposition and there are better ways. We might learn that in Gulf War Part Deux.