That's not what Ike warned. In fact, Ike acknowledged the MIC was necessary. What Ike warned about was that without scrupulous oversight it would come to exercise undue influence on politics and policy, and certainly that has come to pass.
Israel's model of the MIC is better.
We don't need a large standing army. But we need a large navy. Everyone in the army should be in the reserves.
Ideally, we'll use the Navy Seals for targeted raids like taking out the Houthis and Iranian officers.
We need to shrink our military and maybe we'll get into less wars.