Besides it is better in the long run for red states to be less dependent on military industry. In my city there are 5 count em 5 military bases. In our economic development meetings the talk would always be - support expansion of the bases! Look how these troops help our local economy. And it's true. We would always say and a burgeoning startup that employs 500 engineers and tech management positions where salaries are much higher and the synergy of bringing other high tech in because they tend to cluster- let's not focus on THAT?

But also I saw three dem states affected in the article. You 've got to admit as with anything run by the govt the bloat is huge the duplication of force structure etc. We need to be moving towards smaller more highly trained forces.
The part that bothered me was the reduction of national guard.