Yes, according to Article 1 Section 8 Clause 12 of the Constitution.
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
for novanet the answer to this question is no
federal government
The reinforcement of the army is limited to maintain a balance of power and prevent the military from becoming too powerful and potentially threatening the stability of the government or society.
Taxes
No - the Constitution grants authority to Congress to establish and maintain armed forces.
taxes
The Elastic Clause is in Article I of the US Constitution, and it states that any powers necessary to complete the powers listed above (the expressed powers of congress), but not necessarily mentioned there, are nonetheless granted to the Congress. For example: An express power is that Congress can maintain an army. A implied power (powers granted by the elastic clause) would be to recruit, train, and draft citizens into that army. It could also establish military bases to which civilian access was restricted. The elastic clause has been used throughout US history to add powers to the federal government. It allows the federal government to expand its powers.
an implied power
That the army is one part of the government
The federal government
That anti-Semitic elements in the Army were framing Dreyfus for espionage because he was a Jew.They believed that the Army and political forces in France had corrupted and manipulated his court-martial.That the army was corrupt
The Emperor as a divine being, but the Army ran the government
It greatly increased power of the Japanese army over the government