Are We Being Set-up?

I've been reading though an article by Anthony Gregory from Mises Daily reviewing Ralph Raico's book Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal, which was originally posted at LewRockewell.com. (How's that for a mouthful.) There's a lot to digest in the article, but this excerpt jumped out at me.

The Treaty of Versailles, a Germany burdened by war guilt and a resentful, demoralized, brutalized population, and the territorial changes resulting from the peace resulted not in worldwide democracy or an end to war, as promised, but in more conflict, brutality, authoritarianism, and eventually a war even much worse than World War I. Even more politically incorrect to mention, the old order of Europe, as inequitable as it might have been, was swept away, allowing for far greater evils:

Had the war not occurred, the Prussian Hohenzollerns would most probably have remained heads of Germany, with their panoply of subordinate kings and nobility in charge of the lesser German states. Whatever gains Hitler might have scored in the Reichstag elections, could he have erected his totalitarian, exterminationist dictatorship in the midst of this powerful aristocratic superstructure? Highly unlikely. In Russia, Lenin's few thousand Communist revolutionaries confronted the immense Imperial Russian Army, the largest in the world. For Lenin to have any chance to succeed, that great army had first to be pulverized, which is what the Germans did. So, a twentieth century without the Great War might well have meant a century without Nazis or Communists. Imagine that. (pp. 1–2)

 My understanding of this section suggests that if WWI hadn't taken place, the infrastructure and especially the military would have been in position to defend against the Nazis and the Communists. However, the war made the defending forces impotent, allowing the Nazis and Communists to take over their respective areas.
Let me stress this excerpt:

For Lenin to have any chance to succeed, that great army had first to be pulverized, which is what the Germans did. So, a twentieth century without the Great War might well have meant a century without Nazis or Communists. Imagine that. (pp. 1–2)

Now, with that understanding, I wonder what the purpose is behind the US Military's current engagement situation. We are in wars (call them what you will) all over the world. Many of those areas are distant from friendly support and if everything goes badly, they will be caught in the crossfire. The regular military, as well as our National Guard Units, have been hit hard. It hasn't been pulverized (yet), but many of our best have been wounded or killed, supplies are stretched thin, and public awareness appears to now put the wars somewhere far behind Dancing with the Stars -- the general public no longer cares.

I'm concerned that the present condition of the military not only leaves them in a precarious situation, it leaves the entire US and the rest of the world in a precarious situation. Are we being set-up? Will opportunists take advantage of the situation? Looking at Russia, China, and Iran today, I think so.