Well, I am glad to see that you can compose a sentence, lol

That was a cheap shot on my part, but I felt it was warranted. You bring up interesting points. However, regardless of the nature of conflicts, we can still afford to spend more on cyber warfare and technology or anything else when compared to any other country, even after significant budget cuts. As Americans, I do not see that our level of personal safety would decrease at all if our budget was halved. In fact, our warfighting capabilities might increase if that money were spent on education and healthcare instead. The demands of a non-traditional conflict are primarily cognitive, as you yourself mentioned, and a healthy population is a bare minimum for any form of productivity, military or otherwise.

That's not to mention that the first line of defense against terrorism is simply avoiding playing around with hornets nests. The largest difference we could make in avoiding terror threats is keeping to ourselves. Our interventionist foreign policy has done nothing for average citizens. It's just made a bunch of money for defense contractors and international oil companies off the backs of hardworking American taxpayers.