troll, you say: ...until, for sheer economic reasons we had to withdraw our troops from the Persian Gulf region.

If you're talking strictly economic reasons here, do you mean to say that holding ships and carriers and troops offshore for months on end would actually cost MORE than what combat is costing? You can't be serious.

When each missile costs either $1,000,000 or $3,000,000, depending on which type it is, and all the other ordnance is similarly priced, that
is a nice piece of change we've been sending around.

Perhaps you mean that with each expended, and therefore to be replaced, missile someone under contract will make LOTS of money? And that's good for the economy? Replacing MREs and water and fuel to the shipbound troops would be somewhat less profitable.