“If we don’t turn our recruiting situation around, I can’t guarantee you that the Army won’t have to make some more substantial potential force structure reductions,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told senators.
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The service maintains that recruiting shortfalls have not yet hindered readiness but it is in a race to increase recruiting incentives and expand this pre-basic training pilot project before numbers dip lower.
By Ashley Roque
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‘Extraordinary’ National Security Space Changes, 7-Year V-22 Multiyear In NDAA
UPDATED: Adds Changes To Air Force Space Command CAPITOL HILL: Principal DoD Space Advisor. Gone. Air Force’s new A-11 space staff. Kaput. Defense Space Council. Dead. And that’s really just the beginning of what the Senate and House Armed Services Committees hath wrought to national security space in the National Defense Authorization Act. The…
By Colin ClarkArmy Must Forge New Path on Weapons Spending
The Army needs to break with DoD’s modernization strategy or risk being broken itself. Simply stated, the Army cannot afford to cut end strength and units in order to free up resources for modernization. This is all the more true if the modernization programs are complex, expensive and will take years to reach IOC. The…
By Daniel Goure
“Cutting Army end strength to only 452,000 soldiers locks in the service’s worst projections for recruiting, forestalling any possibility to achieve greater-than-predicted success,” writes Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation.
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