Phillip Carter and Fred Kaplan explain How to fix the U.S. military:
- Overhaul the budget.
- Rejigger the military services.
- Fix the Army.
- Invest in people.
- Promote the right leaders.
- Create incentives for a real nation-building or counterinsurgency capability.
- Spread the responsibilities around.
- Taxes.
Note that they don’t spell out that last point with a verb, like increase.