To add to that: Even from a purely military perspective, the intelligence gain regarding modern tactics far offsets what the US paid for it

How is the US neither of those? I don’t get it

And here I am, only being allowed to program in C99 (or sometimes C89)

You just have to stop thinking the US is an actual democracy and everything will make sense (or rather you will understand why nothing makes sense)

Wait, they don’t?

In Germany every cop has to learn at least the basics of Jujutsu for exactly this reason. If you go to a jujutsu training as a civilian, usually more than half in the class are cops