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The Army’s latest headcount shows that nearly 2,600 soldiers departed active service in March without being replaced, an action that plunges manning to its lowest level since before World War II.
Army shrinks to smallest level since before World War II
Those jobs are being outsourced to computers and drones. Men are not good enough anymore. This is the 21st century in case you forgot.
Thanks obama, for being an inept putz!
It’s not really “plunged”, it’s been slowly reduced in a controlled manner. While it makes for good headlines, raw numerical comparisons for the Army with history don’t really mean all that much given how different a modern fighting force needs to be these days with ever increasing influence of naval and air power and increased requirement for specialist and technical roles meaning the balance, training and experience of the members of the armed forces being ever more significant than pure headcount.The Army’s latest headcount shows that nearly 2,600 soldiers departed active service in March without being replaced, an action that plunges manning to its lowest level since before World War II.
The Army’s latest headcount shows that nearly 2,600 soldiers departed active service in March without being replaced, an action that plunges manning to its lowest level since before World War II.
Army shrinks to smallest level since before World War II
Why should this be of a concern?
...being used ineptly. Might as well be similar to England's military might.You may not realize it, but it is also the most powerful fighting force it has ever been.
what can the military not do today that it could yesterday?
i will concede that its parades will be smaller
No big deal that the military has shrunk to levels on par with WW2?this happens after every war. The Military always reduces. It happened after WW1 & 2, Korea, Viet Nam. It happened during the BRAC phase when H.W.Bush closed all those bases. No big deal.
It's not the government America needs, but the government it deserves...Just as the US and NATO are doing their very best to provoke a war with Russia, the government lets troop levels continue to drop.
Yeah, we have the government we deserve.
Drones and computers can't do the ground combat needed to extricate the enemy. Building to building, house to house....they are doing it in Syria right now.....and in Iraq and Afghanistan. So what, if it's the 21st Century!! Have you forgotten how to fight?
The Army’s latest headcount shows that nearly 2,600 soldiers departed active service in March without being replaced, an action that plunges manning to its lowest level since before World War II.
Army shrinks to smallest level since before World War II
what can the military not do today that it could yesterday?
i will concede that its parades will be smaller
I have not forgotten how to fight, I have scars to prove it, not vague references to 'an agency that doesn't exist'... :roll:
Our military since the fall of 'The Wall' have built itself away from light infantry, the type needed to fight house to house, now we need 100 REMFs to support one grunt.
That 99.99% of Americans don't want to join the Army is typical. Usually men don't volunteer in large numbers for the Army in times of economic stability. Apparently there are enough jobs that men don't see the Army as a good career choice. Whoever is POTUS matters not. BushII's DoD had to offer HUGE bonuses to lure men into the Army during Iraq- Not a lot of guys saw the Army as a life affirming career choice...
FYI as a grunt I can tell you the job isn't to 'extricate' the enemy but to exterminate him... and a bomb does the job just as well from my POV...
But then again it would be my ass in the grass...eace
I have not forgotten how to fight, I have scars to prove it, not vague references to 'an agency that doesn't exist'... :roll:
Our military since the fall of 'The Wall' have built itself away from light infantry, the type needed to fight house to house, now we need 100 REMFs to support one grunt.
That 99.99% of Americans don't want to join the Army is typical. Usually men don't volunteer in large numbers for the Army in times of economic stability. Apparently there are enough jobs that men don't see the Army as a good career choice. Whoever is POTUS matters not. BushII's DoD had to offer HUGE bonuses to lure men into the Army during Iraq- Not a lot of guys saw the Army as a life affirming career choice...
FYI as a grunt I can tell you the job isn't to 'extricate' the enemy but to exterminate him... and a bomb does the job just as well from my POV...
But then again it would be my ass in the grass...eace
:roll:Thanks obama, for being an inept putz!
The Army’s latest headcount shows that nearly 2,600 soldiers departed active service in March without being replaced, an action that plunges manning to its lowest level since before World War II.
Army shrinks to smallest level since before World War II
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