Military considers cutting 25% of Army personnel, Marines to trim budget for sequester

[Aristus]

4. Nevermind the sequester. We should be doing this anyway.

Our massive, globe-spanning, empire-building military needs to be taken down a few notches on the readiness scale. We're nowhere near at risk of having to fight a World War II-scale conflict, which is what our current readiness posture is based upon.

We should downsize the conventional military forces, and concentrate on small, high-quality, well-trained units specializing in counter-terrorism.

We pump clenched fists and beat our chests over having defeated the Soviets, and yet we're falling victim to the same thing that brought them down; massively expensive military hypervigilance at the detriment of building and maintaining a high quality standard of living at home.