Air Force should be eliminated？！

First, the Air Force should be eliminated, and its personnel and equipment integrated into the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Second, the archaic “up or out” military promotion system should be scrapped in favor of a plan that treats service members as real assets. Third, the United States needs a national service program for all young men and women, without any deferments, to increase the quality and size of the pool from which troops are drawn.

Yes, air power is a critical component of America’s arsenal. But the Army, Navy and Marines already maintain air wings within their expeditionary units. The Air Force is increasingly a redundancy in structure and spending.

The military should develop a new accounting and personnel system that tracks the cost of developing its human capital and tallies each service member as an investment with a fixed value based on his education, training, experience and performance. This would reflect the departure of a valued service member as an asset lost, not a cost cut. Why are fit men and women who have served in combat, a human experience that a million dollars can’t buy, being pushed out instead of retained for 15, 20, 30 years?

Last, Mr. Gates should urge President Obama to confer with Congress and introduce national service at age 18 for all Americans. Under such a system, young people from all classes and backgrounds would either serve in the military or do other essential work like intelligence assessment, conservation, antipoverty projects, educational tutoring, firefighting, policing, border security, disaster relief or care for the elderly. The best qualified would be assigned to the military.

第一、政府的组织机构问题。有些组织应该合并，使反映速度变快。就好比你需要建一辆好骑的自行车，零部件要拧好，不要东一块西一块；该独立就独立，该结合就结合；情况变了独立或结合也要变

第二、政府、国会、军队等的独立问题。如果完全独立会怎样？如果军队是独立的，那么谁对它发号施令呢？一个想法可能是说国会是其最高统帅，但是国会并没有信息机构，何时大战不知道呀，那么政府部门内的FBI\CIA\NSA就应该画到军队去。现在的军队是属于政府管的。