Military Base Closings - BRAC The List

Military Base Closings: "How large should America�s peacetime military establishment be?
The question reminds us that America�s founders wanted no 'standing army' at all. In fact, they solemnly promised supporters and skeptics alike there would never be one. The clause 'but no Appropriation of Money for that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years' was surely more than a mere bookkeeping reminder, back in 1787, that ongoing budgets and allocations needed to be rubber stamped again ever 24 months.
Would mere bookkeeping procedures merit 17 words and all those capital letters, placed in the same sentence for all the world as though they were somehow supposed to restrict the congressmen�s newly delegated power 'to raise and support Armies'?
Deeply concerned about the risk of armed federal troops coming to be used as domestic police, the founders in fact meant that every two years the public and its delegates should look around, determine whether the nation was at war, and � if not � have any remaining troops stack their arms in the armories, pay them off, and send them home.
One suspects that, today, folks like Mr. Jefferson would have added to the list of those to be regularly cashiered such armed (and now often uniformed, in frightening black) paramilitary forces as the DEA, the BATF, the FBI Hostage Elimination Team, and the IRS 'Criminal Division,' as well.
(Is it 'criminal' to decline to voluntarily subject oneself to a tax on individuals,' when 'individuals' are defined for purpose of the statute as (a) aliens living domestically or (b) aliens living abroad?)
Interestingly, the authority to fund a Navy is listed separately from the 'no more than two years' provision in the Constitution�s First Article, and thus does not fall under it. This makes sense; one could h"