we already have your idea in place, it's called the Joint Chiefs. They answer to Rumsfeld who answers to Bush as Commander-in-Chief.
Generals do not call the shots, they give their requests to the SecDef, he calls the shots. You want to take the head of Defense out of the cabinet and have it purely militarily controlled? You are asking for a military coup in the future you moron.
You clearly have not thought this through very well have you?
The founding fathers knew what they were doing.
As for the Crusader, it is no more accurate than the current Paladin system. It simply has a higher rate of fire. In the future when we will need rapid deployment, the Crusader would have been an enormous problem. It weighs 60 tons not fully loaded down. Add the ammo and armor and you are talking upwards of 100 tons.
When Rumsfeld cancelled the Crusader he made a good point. When he asked how many C-17's it would take to move 18 Crusaders into place, the answer was 60. It would take half the c-17 fleet to move 18 Crusaders. You want to spend $9 billion on the 100-ton gorilla?
The generals would have and it would have been a bad allocation of resources. Good thing we have a civilian in charge. Those air strikes you complained about are more accurate and can be anywhere in the world in a few hours. The Crusader cannot. And it's not like the Paladin doesn't work, so don't pretend like there is no artillery capability right now. Of course there is, it's just not as advanced as the Crusader would have been.
Now tell me again how you don't want civilian control over the military. I need another good laugh.
