Disagree. The USA would do well with a big forward deployed Marine Corp and a huge 1,000 ship Navy. We need a teeny tiny standing army with a sole mission of border control.
You’re not wrong, but that ain’t going to happen as long as this country is run by draft dodgers and an assortment of clowns and @ssholes.
The British model-—and it worked well enough for a couple of centuries. Let the French (or the Germans) run Europe and let Britannia rule the waves.