[bromgeksan]

Keep the Corps at current spending levels. Marines are psychos, and it's best to keep them busy in foreign lands.

Cut the Army to 100 billion. The Army should be a training cadre like Lonestar said, and America's security is best guaranteed by rednecks with hunting rifles. For that reason, firearms and ammunition would be exempt from any consumption taxes we raise to replace the silly ass income tax. That'll cost money, but I don't know how much.

The Air Force needs to quit their ridiculous notions about manned aircraft. UAVs don't need life support, can make aerobatic maneuvers that would kill a human being, and can be lost by the thousands without losing trained pilots. As it is now, a fighter plane has to be nigh invulnerable to every conceivable threat. With UAVs we could just swamp enemy air defenses with cheap drones. The key is to make the drones cheap and to get past the Cadillac mentality of military procurement. They need to start thinking Honda or Toyota - reliable, cheap, and bland. They could do everything we need them to do at about 100 billion.

The Navy has similar procurement problems. There's no reason why the LCS is coming in at 600-700 million a ship. I'd keep Navy funding at 150, but I'd be ruthless with this sort of waste. They're better off with a big fleet of Hondas than a handful of overpriced prototypes.

Intelligence should be kept at its current levels, I suppose. We should withdraw from Western Europe, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and focus on keeping forward garrisons in Eastern Europe (Especially Poland and the Baltic) and Japan/RoK.