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He destroyed the Army. He transformed the Army to a concoction of boutique brigades without adequate artillery support, suited to fight small actions only and little prepared to face the huge Chinese Army and another North Korean Army.
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I don't know where you see us fighting the huge Chinese Army. Taiwan? The Taiwanese are going to have to provide most of the manpower for that. The ChiComs don't have the transport capacity to put a huge army on Taiwan. We will supply air and naval support.

The North Koreans? Same thing for the South Koreans. The only thing we should be providing is Naval and Air Force support. And if you're expecting a Chinese Army there, you have to explain why the Chinese will risk a huge army to give Chiahead a bigger playground. What would they get out of that that they can't get already from South Korea?

Siberia? The Russians don't seem to think anything's coming their way. And they're trying to undercut us in every way they can. So it's their problem.

Some people are bent out of shape over the cancellation of the Crusader artillery system, what, four years ago? It sounded real nifty, just the thing to break up Soviet tank army assaults in Europe. Only problem, no Soviet tank armies exist. So there's no use for it. I don't see the value of paying $11 billion for equipment and then leaving it to rust on Army bases.

We're in a different war, it requires different weapons. His job is Secretary of Defense, not Santa Claus.