The US needs to transfer spending from military to other uses, but neither Clinton nor Trump wants to do that.

Military contractors have bought the support most members of Congress, and given them a convenient excuse for that support by distributing the work throughout nearly all the congressional districts in the US. Congresscritters can simply say, "I support this military program because it makes jobs in our town."

Clearly, their constituents would be better off if we spent that money on something they could actually use.