Training exercise.
That's an interesting way to look at it.
Pay for military personnel could be looked at as sunk cost and cost of consumables like bullets, bombs, cruise missiles, diesel and jet fuel as well as the physical depreciation of equipment are marginal costs.
One of the largest costs was moving our troops and equipment into position over the last five months.
Economically it makes no sense to remove them if additional military action is anticipated in the region.
We’ll see.