How do we feel about War?

As a country the united states has a unique view on War. We have the world’s largest defense budget by far and have around 750 military bases on foreign soil, spread across 80 nations. We are a highly militarized society. We own guns by right, military service is often generational, and we spend over $1 trillion per year on national defense. Despite all this, few American civilians have actually experience war. I don’t mean to say that our US troops don’t see battle, because they definitely do. What I mean by this is that few non-military service Americans know what it means to be at war. Besides Pearl Harbor and 9/11, there are few cases of acts of war against the US on domestic soil that our generation can remember. These two attacks were terrible and led to the loss of thousands of US lives, and I only bring them up to prove a point. Our mindset on war is that of the world’s policemen. We engage in wars across the globe, but we don’t know the consequences of war on home turf. Although we aren’t free from the atrocities of war, we as a population are largely shielded from it.