Army Secretary Christine Wormuth's plan to cut Army forces will undermine U.S. national security.
a plan to cut 5% of the U.S. Army’s total strength, or roughly 24,000 soldiers. This is a remarkably large reduction given the state of global affairs, which includes increasing aggression from all of America’s adversaries and two full-scale wars involving allies.and air defense billets, corresponds to the Army’s recruitment shortfall — roughly 15,000 soldiers a year for the past three years.
Wormuth’s plan will see U.S. Army Special Operations Command lose 3,000 soldiers under the justification that she is positioning the Army for full-scale conflict and “away from counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.” This statement, likely a deflection, shows a complete misunderstanding of the role of irregular warfare in great power competition.
Simultaneously, in southern Israel, Israel Defense Forces engineers have now cleared, collapsed, or flooded several hundred miles of tunnels. These tunnels were built by terrorists and are a reminder that counterterrorism is far from over. IDF engineers are breeching blast doors, sealing tunnel entrances, and reducing ordinance caches daily. All of this suggests that the role of engineers in modern warfare has not diminished but rather is becoming more complex than ever before.
The planned cuts do not make sense. The only logical argument relates to recruitment shortfalls and the difficulty the Biden administration has in inspiring men and women to serve. In fact, recruitment shortfalls are concentrated in
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