I would welcome a threatening red bear again. USSR gave us something to genuinely target, to keep foscused on. It gave us purpose, reason to drill, prepare for, anticipate, fear. It gave us our very best motivation.
I grew up on McChord AFB. lived there from 1965 to 1975. We lived knowing we were a target for a soviet nuclear warhead...24-7-365, year after year........Russia scares me none, USSR did not scare me, just as long as we can destroy it completely and utterly then we will be alright.
New Missles, new warheads, new submarines, new bombers, new tanks, soldiers equipment. We owned those red bastards before, we will own them again.
It is who we are.