The US is slightly more than 4% of the world's population. Its latest "lesson" about public education is that we are "graduating" almost functionally illiterate, innumerate young people.
That Crombe and Nagl write such an essay, with War College stamped all over its "Selected Bibliography" suggests that they are operating in an echo chamber into which they launch their next-to-be cited article.
An overweight, unfit and poorly educated generation will not solve recruitment issues, whether voluntary or conscripted. An entire overhaul of the "liberal world order" currently being led by Biden (and therefore Obama) would be required, to begin to raise up a healthy, fit and skilled generation from out of the incompetent unionized public education system which is failing dramatically.
This duo writing such seemingly "scholarly" stuff proves today's military cannot see the forest for the tree in front of which they stand. The tree at which they focus has an infestation of transsexual "bark beetles" eating away at it, from the two many four-stars down.
To answer a problem, first the problem need be clarified. The article misses by a mile. One should not focus on General DePuy in the time of the Yom Kippur war, but on the Israeli command which won a war.
Footnote -- The War College's graduates have won no recent war, even when the battles all were won, for the Pyrrhic victories remain -- like Vietnam through to Afghanistan -- the waste of materiel and treasure.
Does anyone even read this crap from people in positions that shouldn’t exist … writing that the U.S. is incapable of fighting wars that we shouldn’t even be fighting anyway?