Conner's dissatisfaction with the military completely erupted at that moment. If the military's numbers were cut to three hundred thousand or fewer, then the Federal Military would have no reason to exist at all!
Obviously, everyone understood this. Several members of the Military Committee discussed it in low voices, while the Department of Defense representative sat to the side with an unpleasant expression.
After a brief discussion, the speaker coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention to him.
"Mr. President, three hundred thousand personnel... isn't that too few?"
"If we really do this, the number of people serving in the Federation will reach an all-time low, even falling below the number of soldiers we had before the war. This could affect the security of the Federation's homeland."
Quite a few members agreed with this view. The speaker's gaze swept over several of them.
The members he looked at were either from the Military Committee or had vested interests tied to the relevant committees or the military.
The immediate consequence of reducing the military's numbers would be a collapse in the profits of the Military Industrial Group, which would also create a chain of issues involving various interests.
For example, these military-industrial groups would no longer be able to provide each member's account with the same benefits as before, and the "kickbacks" received by the Military Procurement Committee in the future would also plummet.
To arm ten thousand people, each person would need at least several thousand dollars' worth of equipment. That alone was a business worth tens of millions.
It might seem that this business was not very large—but the military did not have tens of thousands of personnel. It had hundreds of thousands.
Based on the current number of soldiers, at least four hundred thousand would have to be cut. Four