Is this an outcome of the failure to find a national consensus on dealing with brushfire wars?

Time after time, as regional conflicts and brushfire wars had broken out across the face of the globe, the planners in Washington had repeated that time-honored phrase, "Where are the carriers?"

Yet achieving survivability over the European battlefield might well mean trading away conventional iron-bomb-carrying capacity that would be essential in future brushfire wars, like Vietnam.

But it also had to be able to fight in brushfire wars in places like Lebanon and North Africa, Afghanistan, Iran, Korea, Vietnam.

How many of them would survive the plagues and the economic collapse and probably a whole bunch of brushfire wars?

There have been a number of unsavory incidents in the brushfire wars of Africa, some involving recruitment of naïve European and American men "looking for adventure".

She was no stranger to the rough assignments: street crime, underworld investigations, brushfire wars.

Although air militias formed to defend against the air pirates, continuous brushfire wars between the nations prevent the established governments from effectively repelling the pirate threat.

To be back in a comfortable office, half a world away, reading in the morning paper about yet another little brushfire civil war?

This meant being able to fight multiple wars simultaneously; specifically, the US should have the peacetime capability to fight two large regional wars and a small brushfire war at the same time.