If allowed to continue, it will eventually make the U.S. military about as effective as the French.
It only has to be good enough to terrorize U.S. citizens and shoot Tea Party people. Those are its new critical tasks, in the New America.
Edward Gibbon wrote of the Roman army in its decay, in the time of the Constantinian emperors and later, that they were a plague on the people of the Empire, foraging wherever they went in sacro comitatu (i.e., while accompanying the emperor's person in the field), and that they were a terror not to Rome's enemies, but to its countrymen.