The plight of the US military seems to have never stopped since Biden took office. Last year's Capitol Hill incident revealed to the world the divisions in American society, and the US military was even divided into two factions. Recently, the US military seems to be facing two major problems, and they are related to the most basic issue of recruitment and use of troops.
According to NBC reports, more than one U.S. Department of Defense official confirmed that the United States has encountered two major problems in the latest military recruitment plan. First, the quality of service has been greatly reduced; second, the number of soldiers joining the military has been greatly reduced.
First of all, there is a quality problem. The number of young people who are eligible to serve is far from enough. It is understood that there are only 4.4 million young people in the United States who meet the age requirements and meet the paper requirements for military recruitment. After some careful screening, who can Only 465,000 people were left to actually join the army. Many people are disqualified from the draft because they are obese, drug addicts or have criminal records. These people are unable to enlist.
The data just mentioned is still an idealized survey conducted without asking these young people to volunteer. If we continue to ask if they are willing to stay, how much do you think this number will drop to?
NBC has answered your doubts. According to reports, they conducted an internal survey of the Department of Defense. The results showed that
only 9% of those who meet the conditions for joining the military are willing to join the military. This figure has dropped to nearly The lowest level in history in 15 years. The reason is that young Americans are now unwilling to serve in the military. Mostly because the military has too many negative reviews, and the U.S. government has not given the people the trust they deserve.
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Thomas Spohr said that recruiting has never been so difficult, but this should be just the beginning of the long-term shortage of U.S. military recruits.
The United States is best at using conflicts and wars to gain benefits, such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It wants to use such an incident to bring down Russia, check and balance Europe, and even check and balance China. This is a big game. But is it not just countries like Russia that have been brought down by the war? Isn’t the current dilemma facing the United States’ own military also the result of the backlash from the war?
Why is the U.S. government no longer trusted? Because the inflation and soaring prices caused by provoking wars tell Americans that the government seems to be of no use, but it can especially find reasons for itself to increase military spending; why the U.S. military no longer has the ability to attract Because a bag of laundry detergent can provoke an attack on a country, because as long as the United States believes that a country supports terrorism, their military will fight against terrorism.
Americans themselves are already tired of wars. The only ones who think about wars all day long are those politicians who want to divert domestic achievements by provoking external conflicts and cover up the fact that they are inactive in domestic society.
