Do they have soldiers do 20 mile hikes anymore?
It’s best to put all the buts and howevers to bed.
The military is fat and is not going to win against the studs in the Chinese army. This is just reality. The doods who say they are BMI 30 because they are muscular are one of several things
1) Delusional or
2) layered with muscles of no use if told the radios are shot up and we need them to sprint a message to headquarters or
3) Demanding an end to fat shaming abuse and filing a lawsuit
You can’t see numbers of recruitment shortfalls via fat and stupid and in the next breath sit back in confidence that deploying US troops somewhere will define victory.
It won’t. It risks exposure. We would be well advised to mind our own business and stop trying to swagger and influence world affairs — because we don’t have a military that can do that.