[RealClearDefense] Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who is now running for president, wants a bigger Army, a bigger Navy, and a bigger Marine Corps: 50 brigades, 300 to 350 ships, and 36 battalions. How would she pay for it? The debate at which she asserted those numbers provided little time for detail. Earlier, though, she had offered at least that she wouldn't replace thousands of retiring federal workers, in order to decrease "the weight, the power, the cost, the complexity, the ineptitude, and the corruption of the government." In contrast, at the Common Defense (COMDEF) forum at the National Press Club earlier this month, former Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale repeated his oft-heard plea that federal workers get greater respect. Fiorina's words weren't likely what Hale had in mind, but he did agree that there should be fewer federal workers‐just better ones. Much of the problem lies in finding them the right work to do.Big government has failed. Time to make it smaller.