Your military experience is a good guide post on how to reform the systems in the Department of Defense.
As a strategic compliment to your proposal to align the Department to be more focused on the common defense, and address fiscal inefficiency, one’s proposal for an ancillary arm - a Department of Peace, would be an important avenue to temper the misuse of our military service members to engage in unethical, unchecked profiteering at the expense of both human rights and American civil liberties under both domestic and international laws.
Here’s the first draft of my proposal… Establishment of a United States Department of Peace
I welcome those with both legal and military experience to build upon the ideas, framework, strategies, and implementation to secure a lasting peace, improving our economy, bolstering American resilience, thereby restoring our great nation’s standing as a beacon of liberty and freedom, where we can lead by example as a population capable of making the necessary sociological adjustments to remedy systemic failures due to interests that do not serve the common interest of our Constitutional republic and make us less secure as a nation.