... and if we are not extremely careful it will be a real war. A lot of people laugh when a comparison between the events of today and the events before WW I and WWII is made, but this is serious stuff and the USA is not very good at winning wars.
The US thinks that the best technology trumps the greatest manufacturing capacity. That's the same mistake that Germany made in WW2. It doesn't matter if your weapons have kill ratio of 100:1 if your opponent can throw 101 weapons at them.