What do you see as the military's greatest challenge in 2023 and why?

Wokeness

Attracting younger people to join. There are many good opportunities for someone with just a high school diploma now that they have many other choices.

Finding and recruiting qualified candidates

Finding youth that would even fight for this country.

recruiting the newer generation.

To keep our military strong due to Russia and Chinese threats!

Women's rights.

Female service members have earned the right to decide what they do with their own bodies. Forcing them to use, or not use, or be obedient to a political ideology, drives a dagger thru very bedrock of why the Constitution was written in the first place (and our oaths). Not to mention our female service members love, patriotism and sacrifice for our country. We need to honor that.

Our fellow Americans need our support. This is going to be a great challenge for the US military in 2023. Just my opinion.
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The biggest challenge that will over see all challenges is recruiting and retention due to the current affairs and accountability of the current administration that controls the white house. It's going to be super difficult to maintain the amount of soldiers needed to maintain an top shape military force. The second biggest challenge is going to be morale! Keeping the individuals that are currently serving upbeat and optimistic about what lies ahead not only for them but for their units and as a military as a whole to ensure and allow them to serve with dignity and with selfless service, honor, integrity, without personal objective

The greatest challenge that the military has in 2023 is recruitment and updating military navy warships and submarines. I believe America should enforce a mandatory 2 year enlistment among all qualified 18 year old females and males to meet our quotas.

Recruiting is one of the biggest challenges in 2023. The American ideology has shifted its focus. Not a lot of folks want to join the military. The pay is low, you have to go through bootcamp, and the treatment throughout can vary from degrading to somewhat alright.

The farther we come with technology the less people are apt to doing things themselves. Our society relies on pleasantries of life without wanting to work for them. Every generation has worked harder to make life easier for the future generations and their children. This is an extremely wonderful idea, but without the proper thought process, can hinder us and future generations going into the military.

Everyone is connected, but everyone at the same time lives in their own bubble in America. Very rare will you find hard working logical thinking individuals. We are not taught to think that way anymore. Society and the media have given us different ideas to embrace. I may be extremely wrong for saying this, but in my opinion these ideas have helped to keep individuals inside a shell that help them to believe it is ok to be self centered and to not want to get out of their bubble.

I saw an article where more recruits from the south were being injured in basic training. Most of the recruits come from the south the article read. With the way our lives revolve around media and being inside most of the day, our bodies are more prone to getting hurt. In the 1940s and 1910s Americans may have been getting hurt at basic training, but we did not hear much about it to my knowledge. These Americans grew up outside, getting dirty, climbing trees, running bare foot, trying new dangerous things.

Americans these days do not do that, and therefore are more prone to injury. This is because being put through bootcamp is not natural. America is not what it once was in my opinion. We are being told that it is better than ever, but with our mentality of self centeredness, we will crumble. No one wants to go out, put their life on the line, and fight for other people. Especially with the pay rate for the military coming in.

There are jobs that are much less stressful now people can go into where they won't have to go through bootcamp. This is enticing for future generations. Especially when the government helps with so many programs and incentives to stay at home while getting paid to do nothing. This is another big roadblock. Why would someone want to go into the military when the government is already paying them for not working?

The American mindset needs to change, and the military pay rate needs to change. The board in charge of fixing issues needs to be prior military, who came from small and large communities with a variety of backgrounds. Offering associate degrees for a certain amount of years automatically to all enlisted members would be a good start considering Tuition Assistance is taken away until year 3 of service.

The military needs to be able to adapt to the new society better in order to assist in recruitment. With enough thought there are ways to recruit and keep numbers up. Some of the issues come from leadership inside the military itself. Friends of friends getting out tell them how bad it is or how rotten leadership is. The military as a whole almost needs a new restructuring of its own to create better leaders that think about their troops/sailors versus themselves.

Once again the self centered attitudes are hurting the military from within and on the outside. Fixing this is really up to knowing how to sway peoples minds and to get them thinking in different minds.

Please keep in mind, this is all opinion, so take this with a grain of salt. "A strong mind can entertain a thought without excepting it." Aristotle.