The patterns of drone strikes and raids points to JSOC as processing an ever-growing kill list directed by the POTUS. Feel free to peruse Dirty Wars docu.
That said there's so much room for improvement at this point. Eventually people are going to start losing faith in these 20th century institutions and ideas, and hopefully the Millennials and future generations will fix it.
Unfortunately for the baby boomers and gen x, history will look back on them as morally bankrupt, hypocritical and selfish.