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Asymmetric adversarial realities in the multifaceted international body of nations are complicated by transitional alliances and asymmetric defense situational economics... It may be physically impossible for a 1 st tier nation to fully protect itself from even 3 rd tier belligerent country alliances. Although it will likely prevail, a well-equipped 1 st tier 1 nation will be somewhat to seriously bloodied in the engagement. Evidence shows that assured disproportional or even Mutual Assured Destruction keeps 3 rd, 2 nd and 1 st tier adversaries at bay, regardless of claimed cultural differences... The advent of nuclear weapons proliferation among 2 nd and now threshold 3 rd tier adversarial nations and quasi/ extra governmental armed forces/ militias is further complicating. Stockpiling massive quantities of in-place conventional offensive weapons becomes as dire to national interests as small scale nuclear weapons.