Improving national Security and Defense Budget.

While it is true that corporations-military nexus has to be shunned, it is not correct to presume that increase in Defense spending diminishes Security level.
What is of relevance is the use of appropriate use of methods in tackling security issues, with out the nexus grabbing a pie in every deal to sign in fancy and irrelevant technology .
The concept of updating technology is fine, but corruption at the individual level is to be stopped.
Also the so called lobbyists and party funding is the root of this problem;unfortunately this is one of the natural ugly faces of Democracy where money is needed for power and not character.
This problem is endemic in all Democracies.
Media can play a vital role in exposing the same periodically.

Story:

Washington – Speaking last week at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with journalists, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, remarked that he hoped to avoid “massive cuts” in defense, which “would be dangerous now, given the national security requirements that we have.” Yet cutting the baseline defense budget, which is now even higher than it was at the height of the Reagan buildup, may ironically be one of the best tools we have to meet our national security needs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s//csm/330810

Related;

Larison finds little reason to believe that Obama will ever trim the military budget. He also argues that we shouldn’t confuse military spending and defense spending:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/10/obamas-big-big-spending-on-defense-the-military.html