Time to DOGE the DoD

Returning the US Military to it's Constitutional Structure (Army, Navy, & Militia) Can Save Billions, Make our Military More Effective, & Save our Republic

Since the Unconstitutional signing of the National Security Act of 1947, America has not won a single kinetic war. We won the Cold War and have won some battles in Grenada, Panama, and Iraq, but we mostly spend years grinding against a weak enemy while seemingly unaccountable political forces in DC tie the military’s hands, exploit combat tragedies to the demise of our warriors, and never define an actual objective. The 1947 Act dismantled the War Department and established a 24/7 DC Centralized Dept of Defense (DoD) that was the original sin of a massive power grab by corrupt and dishonorable DC bureaucrats to create every scheme imaginable to fleece the US Taxpayers, fund programs that increase their bureaucracy/power, and ensure the continued election of deep state DC D-bags by laundering the money back to Political Action Committees, shady election/community organizer programs, and politicized charities/front companies.

The DoD must be restructured back into Army, Navy, and Militia to de-centralize the power and money back to the States as the US Constitution intended. Any other structure of the DoD will lead to the politicization of the US Military as we have seen over the last few decades with disgraceful flag officers and DC intel community senior leadership shilling for the political party or politician that will enable their taxpayer fleecing forever wars.

Anyone with a basic understanding of military power will clearly see the US military intentionally restricted itself from seizing territory or killing the enemy in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan. This was by design to drag out these conflicts as long as possible to massively fortify less than transparent military contracts funds from hardworking US taxpayers, pilfer as much of the money/product as possible (no audit on a “combat” loss), and then launder a portion of that stolen money back to DC cronies, staffers, and their families’ /friends’ shell companies/charities.

The anti-taxpayer, anti-warrior, and anti-meritocracy mindset seen in today’s military senior leaders and field grade officers is directly tied to their physical location near the politicians in DC and working under the chain of command of the President when they should be mostly under command of the Governors until an Army needs to be raised for a declared war. Congress was given the power by the US Constitution to raise and support an Army, but to Maintain a Navy. This is because a standing Army is a threat to a free society due to their location among the cities and towns, but a Navy is either in port or out on the seas keeping trade flowing and does not threaten free citizens with their continuous active duty status.

Almost all combat power and combat support roles outside of the Navy’s keeping the sea lanes open, killing pirates, and Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) needs to be aggressively moved to the State militias. The Nuclear Triad should be reduced to SLBMs and nuke bombers and all bombers should be located outside of the US so other countries’ nukes will not be targeted on Counter-Force targets such as ICBM launch facilities near US citizens. These nuke bombers and their weapons should be dispersed to Midway, Wake Island, Johnson Atoll, Aleutian Islands, Diego Garcia, Okinawa, and Greenland to eliminate having any nukes in the CONUS or Hawaii.

The complexity of the current system of multiple commands, forces, and echelons is designed to confuse any potential reformer, hide fraudulent waste, and ensure power is concentrated in DC. All Unified Commands should be based on geography and most likely theaters of warfare only. This will ensure warfare is conducted with a single US Commander, minimum stove-piping, and all intel assets and combat domains being efficiently exploited against the enemy. All domain based (Air, Land, Sea, Sub-Surface, Space, Electro-Magnetic Spectrum, and Cyber) and combat support (Trans, Strategic, Materials, and Communications) commands should be eliminated. All forces will be organized under either the Army, Navy, or the Militia per the US Constitution. We will still have an Air Force, Space Force, Cyber Force and a Special Warfare Force, but they will all be equipped, funded, and trained by either the Army, Navy, or Militia to then be chopped to a Unified Commander for declared wars.

The over 800,000 DoD CIVILIAN employees need to be reduced to less than 300,000 and mostly moved to State Militia control. These should only be for military jobs that do not need to be done by uniformed military, but require some continuity (finance, contracting, some Inspector General assistants, some safety investigators, admin assistants, and acquisitions). Anything that is not combat or direct combat support and is not going to be done in combat should be outsourced to a competitive military contractor bid overseen by this far smaller DoD civilian workforce. These contracted out training aids, opposing forces, and readiness exercise facilitators should come from separated combat veterans who have created innovative companies to train and evaluate Militia forces on a yearly cycle to ensure their training is standardized, effective, and ready for modern full spectrum warfare. The current DoD IG system needs to be restructured away from it’s current state of endlessly investigating mostly false accusations against supervisors and commanders and more towards impartial readiness grading based on Mission Essential Tasks assigned to Militia units.

This Constitutional military structure will have a 4 Star US Army Chief of Staff, 4 Star Chief of Naval Ops, and a 4 Star Militia General. The only other 4 Star officers will be each of the Geography Based Unified Commanders who will be the direct Commander of all combat and combat support forces in theater for a declared war. (NorthCom, SouthCom, PaCom, CentCom, Africom, and EuCom should still work). All other Flag Officers will be reduced to 3 Stars in charge of each capability/domain force such as Manned Air, Unmanned Air, Space, Cyber, Spec Ops, Surface, Sub-Surface, Marines, Littoral, Elctro-Magnetic Spectrum, and Nuclear Forces. Every State Militia will still be commanded by the Governor with a 2-Star Militia General. All capability/domain military bases will be commanded by 1-Star Flag officers that are mostly distributed all over the 50 states and territories ensuring most military power/leadership is outside of the destructive influence of DC.