Hmm. BA, I have some thoughts on downscaling of military capabilities and the inadvisability thereof. I don't like a path that leads to all of us sitting around Up There going "oh, hay, everything is going to be all right!" nor one that is chasing away people enmasse. I'm having in mind the transition to a "peacetime" military having something like the UN or NATO, but a lot less toothless... something where the factions agree to limitations on strategic arms that they keep under their chain of command (I call it the PEPPER treaty) with everyone rotating the rest into and out of the joint chain of command dealie as they see fit, still developing whatever they want, etcetera.
Fundamentally, instead of ostracism, I at least would like/prefer something happening along the order of "... whoa. Okay guys, let's take a step back here and consider if maybe we all need to have a bit more oversight of each other on use of force." You know, the sort of messy political/bureaucratic compromise that routinely annoys everyone involved but ends up mostly working. Details to be hammered out.
Fundamentally, instead of ostracism, I at least would like/prefer something happening along the order of "... whoa. Okay guys, let's take a step back here and consider if maybe we all need to have a bit more oversight of each other on use of force." You know, the sort of messy political/bureaucratic compromise that routinely annoys everyone involved but ends up mostly working. Details to be hammered out.