Below is an article of mine that was published on a certain conservative website. It outlines my DOD reform proposals. Could you please tell me your opinions?

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Unfortunately, every year the DOD spends more on personnel than it does on procurement. Annual spending on military personnel is a whopping $111.5 bn, closely trailing procurement spending ($113.4 bn). On top of that $111.5 bn figure, the DOD also spends $18.239 bn on administration (the bureaucracies in the three service departments) every year, so the total spending on personnel is $129.239. The OSD (yet another internal bureaucracy in the DOD) has its own budget of $4.162 bn.
Although the DOD’s budget should be increased, the DOD can buy additional weapons even without additional funding (assuming that the Congress rejects Obama’s funding reduction plan) – by redirecting money away from personnel and towards weapons. Specifically, the Pentagon should:
1) Reduce the number of civilian employees of the three service departments by 50%;
2) Radically reduce the number of generals (Russia plans to reduce the number of serving Russian generals from 1100 to 900);
3) Withdraw America from the useless NATO alliance and from the Rio Pact (and retire all American personnel currently serving at NATO HQ);
4) Dual-hat some commands (e.g. the commander of the USNORTHCOM should have the title of commander of the USJOINTCOM ex officio, even though the two commands should remain separate; the Eighth Army and the Pacific US Army should be commanded by the same general) and merge others;
5) Reduce the staff of the Office of the SECDEF by 75%;
6) Replace all C-5s with C-17s (the crew of a C-17 consists of 3 people; the crew of a C-5 consists of 9 folks) (update: Traitor Gates has decided to shut down the C-17 program);
7) Replace the 3 Seawolf-class SSNs with 3 Virginia-class submarines when the Seawolf-class retires;
8) Cap the salaries of all civilian employees of the DOD (and adjust them for inflation);
9) Require that every new ship program reduce the number of personnel required for 1 ship in comparison to the ship program it is replacing (the Gerald R Ford class is supposed to require 25% fewer crewmen than the Nimitz class); and
10) Replace M1 Abrams tanks with AMX-56 Leclerc tanks (thus reducing the number of tankmen in the US military by 25%).
11) The offices of the General Counsel of the SECAF and the Administrative Advisor of the SECAF should be abolished as should be the entire Environmental Division of the CNO’s Office; all USAF commands and all US Army commands should be commanded by 3-star generals.
12) The military bands of the USAF, the USMC, the USN and the US Army (except their central bands) should be dissolved.
In addition, the DOD should:
1) Retire all obsolete aircraft as soon as their replacements arrive. By “obsolete aircraft” I mean aircraft that can neither fly nor fight.
2) Offer the aircraft carriers Forrestal, Saratoga, Independence, Constellation and John F Kennedy to India (or any other country) if India (or any other country) pays for these ships and refits them.
3) Stop awarding several medals.
4) Strip the two remaining reserve battleships of the USN, the USS Iowa and the USS Wisconsin (and two decommissioned battleships, USS Alabama and USS Massachusetts) of their guns, then sell the 2 reserve battleships (Iowa and Wisconsin) to scrappers.
5) Require that all American military installations be powered by nuclear reactors or hydroelectric powerplants.
6) Stop buying solar panels.
7) Sell all F-4s and A-4s parked at AMARC to the IAF or the Argentine AF for reclamation. (The IAF and the Argentine AF still fly these planes, according to GS.)
8) Abolish the CIA and assign its functions to other intel agencies; the Army Interrogation Manual should be replaced by the CIA’s manual, which should be used by all agencies interrogating POWs; the US military should use waterboarding and other effective interrogation techniques.
9) Conduct a huge promotional campaign promoting American weapons and agree to provide F-35 TOT to the UK.
10) Convince the Congress to ratify DTCTs with the UK and Australia; and negotiate, sign and ratify DTCTs with Denmark, Holland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Chile, Panama, Norway, the Philippines, Ukraine, Georgia, Colombia, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Eritrea and Ethiopia (http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm2090.cfm).
11) Stop sending ordinary MRAP vehicles and conventional armored vehicles (tanks, IFVs, APCs, Humvees) to Afghanistan and start using small MRAP vehicles there instead (because ordinary MRAP vehicles, AKA big MRAP vehicles, often roll over). This will radically reduce healthcare costs for the DOD and the DVA, and reduce the costs of replacing vehicles that have been written off.
12) Ramp up the production rates of F-22s and F-35s, and order hundreds of additional F-22s and F-35s to reduce the price per plane (i.e. to implement economics of scale).
13) Withdraw all American ground forces and naval forces, and one A-10 wing, from Europe; cede their European bases to European countries; and build bases and housing for them in America.
14) Deploy the two fighterplane wings stationed in Europe (the one currently stationed at Spangdahlem AFB and the one currently stationed at Aviano AFB) to Poland.
15) Withdraw the commitment to defend Taiwan, but continue to sell weapons to Taiwan.
16) Withdraw all American troops from Iraq (the war has been won already), and bring 50% of American troopers in Afghanistan home.
17) Withdraw all American troops from all other Persian Gulf countries and from Jordan.
18) Stop fighting the war on drugs.
19) End RIMPAC exercises and all NATO exercises.
20) Ban no-bid contracts and require at least 2 competitors to bid for each DOD contract.
21) Ask the Congress to repeal “Buy American laws” across the board (not just the Buy American laws related to defense).
22) Make it compulsory for itself to sign fixed-price contracts.
23) Impose penalties (other than contract termination) on those contractors who deliver their programs overtime or overbudget.
24) Establish an Air Force Cyber Command to fight hackers.
25) Abolish the post of the Vice Chairman of the JCS.
26) Give 12 of the Hercules planes parked at AMARC to the RAF; reclaim all other aircraft (incl. B-1s, B-52s, F-15s and A-10s) parked at AMARC (except F-16s, which should be recommissioned) to keep the US military’s aircraft flyable.
27) Ask the Congress to reintroduce, and approve, the Defense Acquisition Reform Act of 2007. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d110:2:./temp/~bdJicf:@@@L&summ2=m&)

Some of the suggestions are already in place. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a cap on what DOD personnel can make.