Time of War vs Time of Peace
[I]n war one is fighting for peace.
Not just any peace, but the kind of peace that makes the war worthwhile.
[I]n peace one is behaving strategically with a view to being able to succeed in a future war.
'Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy' by Colin S. Gray
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001WAK14M
We have kids that are getting ready to graduate high school, that do not know what it is like to live in peace time, because it has not existed in their lifetime. This is one of the necessary components, when looking to destroy a society, and a country. Perpetual war will be our undoing. Eisenhower warned us in 1961, during his farewell address to the nation. Military Industrial Copmplex, Ike called it!