Better to have a regiment of Marines than an Army of draftees.
"there are not enough Chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment"---Chesty Puller
Mao's reply - I don't think you have that much ammo.
I agree we need a larger military, next argument, how should it be equipped?
Strictly my opinion:2-3 "Heavy" divisions equipped with heavy high speed mobile firepower (tanks, IFvs, mobile artillery, etc);5-6 "Medium" divisions equipped with medium weight vehicle but still a lot of firepower with slightly longer deployment times (strykers, towed artillery, hummers, etc); 2-3 "light" divisions that can be moved about the world very quickly, but do not carry a lot of heavy equipment, (little vehicular equipment other than Hummers and most of the other stuff can be carried inside of a Hummer).