Drawdown of the military in time of peace is good and normal practice for just these reasons. Could this have as much to do with the destruction of huge amounts of military hardware after WWII as not wanting to flood the post war economy with cheap goods? My Dad flew brand new airplanes around the pattern, taxied them to a draining area and then the engines were chopped off and the fuselages were stacked up with the tails in the air to be melted and recycled.
Gutting the military as now and destroying its morale is a completely different matter though.
Big difference between gutting the military, and giving welfare to friends of Congress.
We can have the most powerful fighting force in the history of the world without spending 1 trillion dollars a year
Your response is perfect, and I can find no fault with it.