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I'm a little surprised (but maybe shouldn't be, given that it's from a publication called "Military Times") it doesn't also touch on the fact that young America

I'm a little surprised (but maybe shouldn't be, given that it's from a publication called "Military Times") it doesn't also touch on the fact that young Americans largely don't think that joining the military is a noble goal or a stable career path. They grew up watching the US get involved in disastrous wars, do some pretty bad shit to civilians and prisoners of war overseas, and then let countless veterans fall into poverty when they get back. Perhaps not for nothing that "America starts wars for oil" is a well-tread Zoomer meme.

spauldo 2y ago
None of that seemed to dampen recruiting among my generation, whose parents fought in 'Nam. Things are a lot better for Afghanistan War vets than they were for Vietnam War vets. I suspect it's more a cultural change than anything specific to the military. Different times, different attitudes.
red-iron-pine 2y ago
that's been a well-tread meme since 1991, and it took a lot of dead people in 9/11 to overcome it.