Posted on 07/25/2022 5:15:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Alienating half the country is not a wise strategy of military recruitment.
The U.S. Army has met only 40 percent of its 2022 recruiting goals.
In fact, all branches of the military are facing historic resistance to their current recruiting efforts. If some solution is not found quickly, the armed forces will radically shrink or be forced to lower standards—or both.
Such a crisis occurs importunely as an aggressive Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea believe the Biden Administration and the Pentagon have lost traditional U.S. deterrence.
That pessimistic view abroad unfortunately is now shared by many Americans at home. In 2021, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute conducted its periodic poll of attitudes toward the U.S. military. The result was astonishing. Currently, only 45 percent of Americans polled expressed a great deal of trust in their armed forces. Confidence had dived 25 points since an early 2018 poll.
Military officials cite both the usual and a new array of challenges in finding suitable young soldiers—drug use, gang affiliation, physical and mental incapacities, and the dislocations arising from the COVID pandemic and vaccination mandates. But they are too quiet about why such supposedly longer-term obstacles suddenly coalesced in 2022—as if their own leadership and policies have had no effect in discouraging tens of thousands of young men and women to join them.
The Greatest Skedaddle in Modern American History
A year ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley were assuring the country not to worry over Joe Biden’s strange ideas of abruptly pulling out all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The radical step was purportedly to coincide with Biden’s planned 20-year celebratory event marking his role in ensuring an iconic end of the war on terror that began on September 11, 2001.
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And I don’t see how we turn this ship around before a major shipwreck....
It is bat shit crazy, but it has too much momentum for anyone to stop it.
The problem is compounded by the fact that a big chunk of our population has made up its mind. Everything it reads, everything it hears, and everything it comes into contact with is filtered through its bias.
Things that confirm its bias are embraced. Things that conflict with its bias are discarded out of hand.
We are in the perfect storm of confirmation bias.
Yes. It can’t be stopped now until it is stopped by kinetic forces of history.
The bridge of the ship was taken over by fanatics, they purged the crew, and have welded the controls to steam straight ahead at full speed.
Nothing can change their minds. Energy policy is one clear signal. 2+2=100 because they believe it. Full speed ahead.
“As a veteran there is no way I would recommend any sane person join the military in the USA at this point.”
This, exactly. Don’t do it. Not until we sort out a host of serious problems.
The US military is on track to become just like most other federal agencies. Staffed by minorities and checkbox employees.
It will become like the US postal service.
Yes, the objective is to have a weak Army heavily staffed with angry perverted degenerates and racist thugs who want to murder MAGA Americans.
They’d have a tough time if they crossed us old VN combat vets and a worst time with the younger combat vets.
Perhaps. See what happened to people who just peacefully assembled on January 6. Moreover this constantly repeated myth that veterans will rise in masses to confront heavily armed full spectrum military forces is worse than silly and people should stop using it as a comforting fairy tale. The only way armed resistance will happen is slowly in areas such as eastern Kentucky where there is a culture of self reliance and dislike of government. It would start over some immediate issue such as civil disarmament and the national guard demanding heavy support because of persistent sniping. Once the Army is sent to suppress a state of insurrection the normal template of mass arrests and property destruction will help foment a real resistance movement which will grind on indefinitely. But this myth that suburban vets will spontaneously rush out to defeat heavily armed regular army units is a silly myth.
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I agree and have thought the same for a long time. That’s why I always say “if they crossed”.
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