Cut spending, spread the troops thin and do anything else that can be done to destroy the military.
I just had a family member denied enlistment because in 8th Grade that fmaily member vandalized a school facility with some other kids. Restitution was paid this family member has never been in any other trouble, goes to church and is over all a good heterosexual person. I suggest they say the family member is gay, the enlistment might have been accepted. Peversion is ok, vandalism is a step below murder in todays Army.
“Cut spending, spread the troops thin and do anything else that can be done to destroy the military.”
At this point, I’m starting to think that might be something we need to do. If we are going to wrestle the Federal Government down to size. The Federal Military is going to be a major problem and threat. The truth is we don’t need many of em, and the ones we do need most all of it can be transferred to the National guards of the 50 States.
The Federal army can be reduced to a tiny fraction of its present size consisting primarily of just the top officers and most elite special forces personnel. People who will have 2 primary responsibility related to the defense of theses united States.
1: Maintain the capability to pull together the resources of the various State militia into a large coherent large army & air-force.
2: Respond to small time military/political crisis around the world involving less then say ~2 thousand troops.
Anything more and a congress should declare war and the Militia(National Guard) should be mobilized to quickly surge the army & air-forces numbers to the required size.
Indeed the only reason we are retaining the Generals and other top staff is to maintain our strategic skills(for fighting a major war) and the capability to pull together the States in fighting a war.
The Special forces and instance response teams will be necessary for dealing with them little problems and providing an experience platform in which to train future generals. Beyond that there should be war games among the States administrated by the pentagon generals with the propose of encouraging competitive war fighting skill retention and development.