If you are really stuck to a point where things are getting bad faster than you can fix them, you have another option. On the race screen for your civilization there is a militancy statistic, this represents how much forces your population likes to see around. At 100 you are looking at the default rate, then you can adjust this as a %, so if you ever wanted to play a totally pacafist species that does not believe in war you can use SM and alter the figure. Just remember to hit save species after.