The Pentagon's civilian bureaucracy must be gutted

Editor's note: The most favorable conditions for the empire is an arms race and it is intentional. A network of private corporate intelligence networks through the central banks working with major war contractors create these arms races because they are extremely profitable - for a few at the top of the hierarchy in this predator and prey ecosphere. Based on the latest economic and financial data from May, 2025 the alleged US national debt is approximately $36.2 trillion (data from the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation). Probably another fraud just like everything else in society is a fraud especially banking. How many years does this go back the US economy and the US dollar are collapsing? Probably more than 40 years and the system is still pillaging at full throttle. If Vice President Vance announced "an end to US dominance" why is the US defense budget at around $1 trillion with all these new weapon systems ($250,000 per round?) coming on line? As we all know AI won't be used to benefit mankind; AI will be built to wage war on us through deception and blackmail.
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Strategic Downsizing: Restructuring the US Military For a $200 billion Republic

By Mike Harris | TID Service Group Iceland | May 20, 2025

The United States no longer operates a military for national defense. It operates a vast, unaccountable machinery of projection—part corporate enforcer, part financial laundromat, and part mythological totem of imperial permanence. At over one trillion dollars annually when factoring in the Pentagon, intelligence community, Veterans Affairs, and black-budget annexes, American military spending has become an inverse mirror of national strength: the larger it grows, the less capable it becomes. The republic it was meant to defend has withered beneath the bootprints of empire, while the Pentagon itself, bloated and increasingly autonomous, serves interests aligned neither with citizenry nor constitutional mandate.

This document outlines a viable plan to restructure the U.S. military into a lean, sovereign, and effective force operating on $200 billion annually—a figure consistent with the defense spending of major continental powers. This is not a plea for austerity. It is a blueprint for survival. The United States must abandon the ruins of empire and restore the primacy of the republic, or it will collapse from within, armed to the teeth but incapable of self-preservation.

To begin, the strategic doctrine of the U.S. military must be rewritten from the ground up. The current operational paradigm—crafted in the post-WWII crucible of global hegemony and inflated by Cold War paranoia—relies on three sacred assumptions: that American presence must be global, that deterrence is achieved through overwhelming firepower, and that threats are best handled preemptively through force. These assumptions are not only outdated—they are catastrophic. The global basing system, numbering over 750 foreign installations, exists not to protect Americans but to police resource corridors, suppress rivals, and ensure compliance with a financial order centered on Western capital.

There is no rational justification for American troops to remain garrisoned in Germany, South Korea, Japan, or Djibouti 80 years after World War II. The perpetual rotation of brigades through eastern Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific has no bearing on the security of the continental United States. It exists purely to feed the logistical contracting apparatus—KBR, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton—and to justify endless appropriations under the flag of readiness. True readiness is defensive: it is the capacity to repel attack, not to incite it.

In terms of command structure, the Unified Combatant Command model must be decimated. AFRICOM and SOUTHCOM, creations of the neocolonial consensus, are to be dissolved in full. Their strategic footprint is dedicated almost entirely to resource surveillance, proxy manipulation, and covert destabilization. EUCOM is a Cold War dinosaur that has evolved into a front for NATO logistical theater coordination, often acting in ways antithetical to U.S. sovereignty. NATO itself, absent a Soviet threat, is a relic—a mutual suicide pact for Europe and a spending funnel for the United States. Withdrawal from NATO is not abandonment. It is emancipation—from endless obligations, Ukrainian escalation cycles, and European dependency. [Editor's note: Listen to this moronic corporate US Marine Corps general with more ribbons on his chest than General Patton ever had talk about the US colonizing Africa with the usual Pentagon prepackaged canned speak. Hands off Burkino Faso. If the US wants Burkino Faso's gold then negotiate for it and do legitimate trade deals.]

The Pentagon's civilian bureaucracy must be gutted. Currently employing over 800,000 civilians in direct and indirect roles, it has become the second-largest employer on Earth after Walmart. The administrative class inside the Pentagon operates like a shadow state, where bloated procurement processes, surveillance architecture, and behavioral compliance programs outweigh actual defense logistics. A 60–70% reduction in civilian administrative roles is not a political risk—it is a strategic imperative. Entire offices, programs, and oversight departments exist solely to perpetuate the complexity of their own existence. Meanwhile, billions in contracts are awarded to firms whose primary skill is navigating the procurement swamp, not delivering capability.

Equally dire is the contracting system itself—a legally sanctioned kickback network in which no-bid contracts are normalized, over-billing is rarely punished, and defense firms help write the very legislation that governs them. The revolving door between top brass and industry executives is not incidental—it is structural. Every post-retirement board appointment at Raytheon or General Dynamics represents a policy decision made years earlier, in anticipation of personal reward. To run the U.S. military on $200 billion, this system must be smashed. Contracts must be open-source, zero-margin mandated on all replenishment deals, and all defense corporations placed under permanent audit by independent non-governmental accounting firms.

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