if you are big and i am small

Then I am quick and you are slow.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/11/rand.insurgencies/index.html

I think this study is outdated a touch. But it is true that for whatever reason we haven't figured out that more tanks and troops and bombs do not win insurgent campaigns. It took a while for the military to either get its head free from the administration or free from its posterior. The study concluded things that most sensible military minds should already know: the easiest way to occupy or control a country is with a local government. Troops, or any other manner of coercion is probably counter-productive. So a multi-million dollar study was made to figure this sensible point of view out. Thanks much Pentagon.

But they do have this going for us.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/11/russian.bomber/index.html
Fighting over the Pacific rim. That's not exactly a new story for America. But it's somewhat silly to have to be fighting over the last several wars again (Span-Amer, WW2, Korea, Vietnam)... I think Russia is just doing the stuff we used to do to it when LeMay ran SAC and used to let the bombers wander into Soviet airspace and see how many fighters would come up to intercept. Turnabout is hardly fair, but it is funny. Except for the nuclear weapons involved.