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Government Corruption
Democrats are systematically destroying our military
2022-11-01
[American Thinker] A little over a week ago, the Heritage Foundation issued a report that did not get the attention it deserves. The report is entitled "2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength," and it details how significantly the U.S. military has declined under the not-so-tender care of the leftists in charge of the White House and the Pentagon. Indeed, if one considers China to be our greatest geopolitical foe, it’s questionable whether our military has the ability to fight, let alone win.

The 2023 Index has an executive summary that pretty much says it all:
As currently postured, the U.S. military is at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests. It is rated as weak relative to the force needed to defend national interests on a global stage against actual challenges in the world as it is rather than as we wish it were. This is the logical consequence of years of sustained use, underfunding, poorly defined priorities, wildly shifting security policies, exceedingly poor discipline in program execution, and a profound lack of seriousness across the national security establishment even as threats to U.S. interests have surged.

The summary explains that "The condition of America’s military power is measured in terms of its capability or modernity, capacity for operations, and readiness to handle assigned missions." These metrics are measured against specific military objectives: defending American soil, successfully concluding a major war that poses a serious threat to America, and preserving "freedom of movement within the global commons (the sea, air, outer space, and cyberspace domains) through which the world conducts its business." Except for the Marines, which have managed to resist the Pentagon’s "woke" obsessions, every one of America’s forces is in increasingly dire straits.

The threats are those you would expect: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other bad actors. What’s depressing is the grades assigned to the various branches of the military.
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