+1. Clarification: The USA is not supposed to have an army during peacetime. The USA needs an army with based soldiers for now, at least until the border is fixed, invaders are out, and the Chinese Communists are replaced by a new system reflecting pre-Communist era values.

James Madison addressing the constitutional convention in 1787: “ A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” ____https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/james-madison-birthday-quotes-from-the-most-quotable-founding-father

Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the USA “ What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty…Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”—Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Member of the Constitutional Convention, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789” ____ http://www.vlrc.org/quotes.html. — theyhave the page wrong though, I’m still working on it. ____ pages 777-778 on page 778 https://www.congress.gov/annals-of-congress/page-headings/1st-congress/amendments-to-the-constitution/19358f interesting discussions on the Amendments to the Constitution