Should USA become Stratocracy state with military first policy?

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Some of the best countries in the history were Stratocracies.

Sparta was a Stratocracy. 

Today, North Korea is a Stratocracy with military first policy.

So what is a Stratocracy?

Stratocracy is a system of government where military commander or few military generals govern the country.

Stratocratic government defends its power with its military force.

Military members have higher status than ordinary citizens.

There are no elections. No money is wasted on counting votes.

All resources are devoted to the military. This is also called military first policy.

Now, why should United States become  a Stratocracy?

Well, USA's main enemy is North Korea. North Korea used military first policy to develop weapons that surpass US defense capabilities.

North Korea has over 50 ICBMs, an amount enough to overwhelm US defenses.
And North Korea keeps producing more. By 2040, it will have over 300 ICBMs with even better capabilities.

US, on the other hand, has "the mercy budget" where money is wasted on healthcare and other nonsense.
Out of 4 trillion dollars, only 600 billion is used on military. Thats not even 20%.

So, my advice:

1) Abolish all non-military expenses in the budget. This includes all social services such as healthcare.

2) Increase military spending from 600 billion to 1.5 trillion.

3) Increase active military from 1 million soldiers to 10 million soldiers (assuming each soldier has wage of 4000$, this will cost 40 billion dollars per month, so 480 billion dollars per year).
This will help counter North Korea's 7 million troops.

4) Give more money to weapon production leaders and make them produce more weapons for the military. 

5) Increase ICBMs amount to 1000.

6) Increase air force strategic bombers fleet to 4000 and increase fighter/interceptor/escort fleet to 4000.

7) Increase production of anti-armor and anti-air weapons such as rocket launchers.

8) Increase production of artillery and light artillery, and guided missiles

9) Increase production of drones.

10) Increase defense and attack capabilities in general, by spreading the military and equipment to bases around the world.

This will also solve the debt and lower taxes and lower unemployment.

Taxes will be lowered because budget spending will decrease from 4 trillion to 1.5 trillion, and so will the taxes.

There will be no more deficit in the budget.

Unemployment will go down as military employs more people.

Stratocracy is a good system for USA, since democracy made US weak.
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@Best.Korea
Sparta was constantly dealing with helot (slave) revolts, and while successful, definitely ranks below the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Mongol Empire, Rome, British Empire, etc.
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@K_Michael
Sparta had less population and less resources, and it had many enemies who outnumbered it.

Still, it often defeated much larger militaries.

Of course, Spartas system did have flaws and it was not always military first as it gave lots of power to women too.

But Sparta did very well. I believe it even had potential of great conquest.

It easily crushed its democratic neighbour.

Rome also used a variant of military first policy, since its soldiers had much greater set of rights than civilians.
But Rome changed many systems over time, incompetent ones got the power and ruined everything.
Since Rome was shifting between Stratocracy and "republic" and sadly even "Christian government", I do think it would have been much better for Rome if it was simply pure Stratocracy.

Stratocracy and military first policy does not guarantee invincibility to any small country that uses it. However, it gives much better odds to create the greatest military than any other system of government.
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It easily crushed its democratic neighbour.
The Peloponnesian War lasted for 27 years. It was not "easily" won. And the fact that Athens was a successful city-state at all points to Democracy being at least somewhat viable.

it gives much better odds to create the greatest military than any other system of government.
Spending the majority of your money on the military = stronger military?

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 "The Peloponnesian War lasted for 27 years. It was not "easily" won."

It was won and Sparta was never at a disadvantage or at threat of defeat.

Athens were mostly on the run and dodged fights.

"And the fact that Athens was a successful city-state at all points to Democracy being at least somewhat viable."

Democracy is viable until Sparta comes and beats the shit out of it.

Democracy is operated on luck. If you dont have a strong military, you can only hope that no one attacks you. 

Yes, democracy can work sometimes but its not the best option if you want to survive in this world where power is everything.

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