The United States is not adequately deterring China and Russia and its military modernization efforts are being hampered by needless bureaucracy, according to a retired Marine general. “China has not only modernized their military, but they have quadrupled their military,” said Arnold Punaro, a retired major general of the U.S. Marine Corps. “I don’t care what you want to count. Their navy is now larger than ours, their missile force has been quadrupled, they have beefed up not just quantity but quality.” Punaro made the comments during a webinar hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank on Feb. 16. He warned that the United States military could become irrelevant on the global stage if changes were not made to the processes that govern the Pentagon and military development. “We still have, I think, the world’s finest military,” Punaro said. “But we want to keep it that way and, I don’t think, on …