Honestly, one of the primary and less focused-upon fears of the American Founders (and their British ideological forebears) being the standing military establishment for the raftload of detrimental impacts such would have is something that could very much use to come back--alongside more widespread distrust and skepticism of the military as an institution and those who feed and supply it (in fact, the military and its associated industrial and policymaking complex should probably be the prominent recipient of much of the skepticism currently leveled at 'police' in general--with police only deserving such in more localized instances because of the very decentralized nature of those forces compared to the explicitly centralized military).
Which is to say/agree that no, we shouldn't trust the military. Even presuming it was a positive, the 'special status' of the institution during years of antiSoviet containment-strategy is very much over now...Or, even from a cynical and cold perspective that sees it as a positive development, requires refocusing upon the red Chinese target that it has been hesitant to actually do (both for its own reasons and because of the interests of the American financial complex).