For ‘some’ definitions of success…
The Army Times reported this weekend that the Army’s endstrength for March was 479,172. That’s 154 fewer soldiers than the service’s previous post-World War II low, which was reached during the Army’s post-Cold War drawdown in 1999.
The Army is actually lower now that under Slick Willie, who did his damnest to destroy the military too! So, according to the current administration, this is a ‘success’???
And they want to drive the number down to 450,000 people.
And the administration continues to send dribs and drabs of combatants back to the Middle East. Rough unofficial numbers are 4-5000 in ‘combatant’ roles, and another 4-5000 in ‘support’ roles. But the ‘war is over’… Yeah, right…
Full article HERE, on Fox News.
Lest anyone think it’s ONLY the Army, all services are taking hits. The Navy is now at it’s lowest ship count since 1916! Think about that, ONE HUNDRED years ago, the US Navy had more ships than it does today…
From Reagan’s high in 1989 of 592, with 125 of those being submarines, we are now down to 271 with 72 submarines.
Another ‘success’ for the administration! Damn them…
And cutting money for maintenance has had even more impact on the ‘implements’ used by the services, be they ships, airplanes, submarines, helicopters, tanks, etc…
Oh yeah, for reference, the Navy’s 1916 numbers were 245, with 44 submarines…
IF anybody has the Marine and USAF numbers, please put them in comments, if you would…
That whole two regional conflicts ability? It’s history… But even more interesting, there hasn’t been a concurrent reduction in ‘requirements’ for military presence. E.g. the administration signing up to ‘protect’ Central Europe from missiles. That has added a three destroyer presence in the Med, which hadn’t been there for 10 years at least.
And the whole ‘pivot’ to the Far East? Yeah, three ships… in 2017… Whoopie…
In another ‘interesting’ story, apparently the book of face has been caught ‘faking’ trending updates by plugging things like BLM in, while kicking anything conservative out of the trending updates. So much for ‘believability’ of the book of face’s lack of bias…