What I find so strange is that while I am no supporter of the military complex in the US, all of my ire is directed at the civilian oversight and not the military itself.

The military generals wanted to close bases that it didn’t need and that they thought was wasteful - the government wouldn’t close them because of the job loss.

The military leaders have said one of the biggest threats to our democracy is our ballooning national debt - I can’t find a quote from a general but you will find plenty of pro-military sites that agree. But yet the civilian government ignores the threat.

The military has plenty of weapon programs that it would love to mothball. But again, Senators are worried about job loss and they keep making weapons and selling them to foreign governments.

The government can spend billions on weapons that the military doesn’t need and private contractors but won’t equip soldiers with what they need.

There have been plenty of stories about how the civilian government has recently put soldiers health in danger for photo ops and exposing them to Covid unnecessarily. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/navy-captain-cro...)