Sanders (to a degree), Gabbard, and Gravel (to a larger degree)all make this a priority.
The founding fathers agreed with you. The army is the only budget item required to be renewed every two years (every new congress). Until WW2, our peacetime standing army was 2-5% of its wartime manpower, so the house, as well as the senate, had a veto, because they had to appropriate funds to bring the army up to a wartime footing.
