By Mackenzie Eaglen AEIdeas June 13, 2023
Across the armed forces, service leaders continue to tout a military getting smaller and older as necessary to free up funds for other priorities. But on their paths to emerging fleets and inventories of 2025 (one short fiscal year from now, essentially), the military is hitting the iceberg of bankruptcy before the vaunted future ever arrives fielded and at scale.
The Navy is simply too small and unready to meet daily global demands for forces, much less confront challenges posed by China. Air Force leaders are telling combatant commanders they need to ask for less air power in the “give-and-take” of supply versus worldwide demand. The Marine Corps commandant has stated bluntly that his service is basically out of the crisis response business—too small and lacking amphibs to respond to allied earthquake victims, train outside of bases in Asia, and help evacuate America’s embassy in Sudan......It is past time for leaders to admit the world does not take a pause while America attempts to catch up. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the US is increasingly falling behind—by choice...........To Read More...
My Take - While China just launched a new air craft carrier America's leaders and military focus on gender and social justice nonsense in our military. I will have more on this soon.
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