The Founders understood the danger of a standing army and put it in the Constitution that the People should be armed and the militia act in matters of domestic defense. A military should only exist in times of war. We’ve been at war for far too long apparently.
Well I hate to break to you, some of our founder didn’t mind having a standing army or navy like Adams, Jefferson, and Madison..
States need to have a military budget. Each state should have as many well trained and armed infantry regiments as possible. These soldiers should be under the authority of the Governor. A regiment (1000) per 500,000 population.
Say, for the sake of argument, the U.S. had no standing army in 1941. What would have happened from December 8th onward?