Yes, remember when blue team was kidnapping people, trafficking them to foreign blacksites and refusing the return them even when proven wrong? Remember when they removed elected officials from government briefings by force? Remember when democrats organised a military parade for the dear leader’s birthday?
No, the idea was that a good militia is all you need to keep a country safe, and that a federal army is a tool for government oppression. That’s what the writers saw all over Europe at the time, so they made sure the fix that in their new country.
And then everyone pretended that wasn’t the case