Survey of 2020 Presidential campaign websites: on Homeland Security

Tom Steyer: National Service Plan: $50B for public service

Mike Bloomberg: Address high suicide rates and mental illness among veterans

Mike Bloomberg: Reverse ban on transgender people serving in the military

Joe Sestak: First 3-star Admiral elected to Congress

Joe served as President Clinton's Director for Defense Policy on the National Security Council in the White House, the first Director of the Navy's strategic anti-terrorism unit (Deep Blue) after 9/11, and the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements responsible for the Navy's five year $350 billion warfare requirements.

Joe Sestak: Reduce size of navy from 375 to 260 ships

Joe Sestak: More funding for veterans and for cyberspace

Priorities:
• Re-join the Iranian nuclear deal to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
• Modernize our military by focusing on the capability of cyberspace and no longer measuring our prowess by force structure numbers alone.
• Emphasize the importance of dominating cyberspace, in the realms of both cyber-security & cyber-warfare.
• Support all of our military servicemembers, including LGBT heroes.
• Provide better services and opportunities for our returning veterans..

Joe Sestak: Reduce number of carrier strike groups from 11 to 9

Pete Buttigieg: Prioritize cyber-threats & extremism, not more submarines

In the coming decades, we are more likely than ever to face insurgencies, asymmetric attacks, and high-tech strikes with cyber weapons or drones. Yet our latest defense budget calls for spending more on 3 Virginia-class submarines-- $10.2 billion--than on cyber defenses. It proposes spending more on a single frigate than on artificial intelligence and machine learning. We need to look not only at how much we're spending on our military but what we're prioritizing.

Pete Buttigieg: Security establishment should reflect nation's diversity

Howie Hawkins: Convert arms monopolies to nonprofit public enterprises

John Delaney: National service program: military or community service

• Military service
• Community Service would operate similarly to AmeriCorps or The Peace Corps. An example could include a Generations United plan which partners the volunteers with the elderly to teach technological proficiency.
• Infrastructure apprenticeships, via public/private partnerships with private companies and trade unions. All federal contractors would be required to design and implement an apprentice program
• Climate Corps: volunteers would assist in clean energy projects, including solar installation, improving building efficiency, developing community gardens, and increasing awareness about sustainable practices.

Pete Buttigieg: More years of executive & military experience than most

Mike Gravel: America will be safer without nukes: end "nuclear deterrent"

The United States should:
• Fully accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
• Sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
• Officially declare that the United States would not be the first to use nuclear weapons.

Mike Gravel: Bring 138,000 US troops home from 800 bases abroad

The United States should:
• Close all military bases abroad, beginning with those based in Muslim-majority countries.
• Bring every American soldier stationed abroad back to the U.S.
• Determine a package of reparations for communities negatively impacted by U.S. bases abroad.
• Establish a corresponding demobilization and reintegration programme for U.S. servicemen and women returning home to enable their full and healthy integration into social, economic, civic and political life.

Marianne Williamson: Make suicide prevention a top priority for veterans & VA

When our service members come home from service, it is critical that they get the support they deserve. As our brave women and men of the military are transitioning out of service and reintegrating back into society, the right support can make all the difference during their transition and in the ensuing months and years. Many veterans don't even know about the variety of services that are available to support them, nor do they know how to take advantage of them. Solving this lack of outreach to veterans will involve coordinating efforts between the military, the veteran's administration, and outside non-profit groups and community centers.

Andrew Yang: Military spending on modern threats, not decades-old ones

Problems to be solved:
• The military budget makes up 54% of all discretionary spending, much of which is focused on defending against threats from decades ago as opposed to the threats of 2020.

As President, I will...
• Invest in the treatment of veterans, and ensure that soldiers are treated with care and respect upon returning home by a system that recognizes them as assets and contributors.
• Identify areas where military spending is going to programs that aren't making us safer in the context of modern warfare that can be eliminated or are redundant.
• Appoint a new Secretary of Cybersecurity to lead our efforts to secure our country's vital systems from cyberterrorism, which is one of the leading threats to our ongoing prosperity.
• Invest heavily in counterproliferation efforts to identify and secure sources of weapons-grade nuclear material, including offering to buy such material for exorbitant prices.

Andrew Yang: Invest in equipment for technical superiority

Andrew Yang: Rechannel $60B per year from defense to infrastructure