IOTL Eisenhower on a sensible understanding of the Soviet threat, essentially starved the US military throughout the 1950s in order to give the US consumer economy time to rebuild and adjust to a peaceful existence.
This left military reform to occur under Kennedy and during Viet Nam, with some consequences (i.e. McNamara) and the major problem of sending the US Army into Viet Nam with few people who were actually prepared to fight a war, let alone the kind of war Viet Nam was.
So let's say Eisenhower, in 1957-8 decides to embark on some sort of military reform. What would it look like, as opposed to Kennedy-Johnson reform?
This left military reform to occur under Kennedy and during Viet Nam, with some consequences (i.e. McNamara) and the major problem of sending the US Army into Viet Nam with few people who were actually prepared to fight a war, let alone the kind of war Viet Nam was.
So let's say Eisenhower, in 1957-8 decides to embark on some sort of military reform. What would it look like, as opposed to Kennedy-Johnson reform?