US Military’s Greatest Challenge Is Here at Home: How to Solve the Recruitment Crisis
In 1775, a group of plucky English colonists formed an army and a navy to uphold the rights they believed were due to them as Englishmen — and in the 250 years since, these institutions have formed the sturdiest pillars of the world’s greatest nation.
From the Yankees at Gettysburg to the leathernecks at Iwo Jima, American servicemembers have spilled their blood around the globe for security, freedom and decency.
The US military has held together a world at relative peace and unprecedented prosperity for eight decades. The Pax Americana represents a civilizational triumph.
We owe our armed forces, living and deceased, an enormous debt of gratitude. Yet America’s military faces immense challenges.
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John Ketcham is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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