Any thoughts?
I don't know what I'd use my other ratio for, the 36% one..hmm.

Nice.. just need to say one thing about expecting the WOT or Iraq War to last 26 years- your stats imply we are at war 26 years out of a hundred. That isn't consecutive. The median duration is only 3 years. So that tells you our current war is already above the median (and average). It does not tell us that we can expect it to last 21 more years. The stats actually tell us otherwise.

The only thing we can use to estimate the length of the current war are subjective aspects like: oil, funding, military personnel, politics and more, most of which are extremely hard to quantify.

Anyways, nice post and it really does say something about the "Land of the Free" -how we got that way and stay that way.