Originally Posted by MaDalton

while you surely have a point, i still think Obama is right - re: horses and bayonets

today no one needs massive fleets of warships and tanks and hundreds of thousands of soldiers - you need small, flexible, effective units.

which overall at the end will be a lot cheaper than the current setup

lets be honest - there will be no WW III against China or Russia in the future. and even if so, it will not be fought on a battleground - soldier against soldier

the military needs to be reformed to adapt to modern times and current and future threads - the only problem is that the US military is a massive economic factor and reducing it to what would actually be needed would cost a few hundred thousand jobs in the army and their suppliers

and no one wants to be the one to be responsible for that.