We Americans currently fund the military to the tune of spending as much as the next 30 countries added together.During a peace you should prepare for next war.
Yes, that's taking military spender number two through military spender number 31 and adding their individual totals together, then comparing that amount with what the US government spends.
We don't just have waste in the sense of trimming the fat from a piece of beef with military spending, we have a gargantuan squandering of the wealth of America, pouring that wealth into the pockets of a connected few.
The US government active duty military needs a huge reduction, in both numbers of personnel and with equipment. About 90% ought to do it.
Gargantua.