No, Elise it is much, much worse than that, the armed forces of the United States have been engaged in combat around  the world continuously since 1950! Either in small skirmishes or major wars, think about that; most Americans are not even aware of that. All of the uproar over China and their islands and other nations having nukes; we are the only nation in the world in the 21st Century to have a world wide military empire and like all others we will fall because of it.  While other nations put their resources into education and healthcare, an economy, we build bombs. This is not by accident Truman's Defense Sec at the close of WWII said we needed to be on a permanent war economy, well he got his wish.