U.S. Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits

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9 points·MuchoMaas··7 comments

Given the recent European land war and the general performance of one of our main military rivals in said war I think it's possible this was actually planned for awhile and the recruit problem is just a convenient excuse

Perhaps not the best time to be discharging unvaccinated troops?

On the upside, the force they're left with is much more heavily skewed to order followers and regime loyalists.

I get what you are saying but even in the military this is not always a good thing. I had to fight/escalate many times when people gave very poorly thought through orders. They don't like my kind, but if none of us are left to rock the boat I could foresee monumentally dumb things occurring that could harm many military and civilian alike and waste vast amounts of taxpayer money.

I used the term "they" very carefully. It's only an "upside" to a very select group of people.

Yes, it's just that optimizing the force for a domestic purpose does somewhat reduce the recruiting pool.

That depends entirely upon one's goals.

It was, for example, a relatively effective means of applying a partisan ideological screen to the force without having to admit to having applied a partisan ideological screen.

The screen will be very incomplete, but adequate for materially changing the partisan makeup of the overall force.

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