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

Transition to Special Forces Operations from Large Land War Operations. Since large land wars are obsolete and no longer required, the Army and Marines should transition to special operations and reduce enlistment that is not required to support the Army Rangers, Special Forces (Green Berets), Night Stalkers, Psychological Operations, Civil Affairs, Marine Raiders and Force Recon. The Army reserves and Marine reserves would increase to support a possible but not probable land war. The Airforce and Navy force strength would remain.

Trying to maintain a positive attitude and having faith in our country that life must go on regardless of our present situation that we must and will prevail.

Recruiting, focusing on the current and next generations

Becoming wokeism and not giving in to equity training. They need to be able to think for themselves and act to defend the U.S. without micromanagement. Military recruitment is already down because of all these things mentioned, we need better management and leaders to bring our forces to what they once were.

Airman Glennemeier
As unpopular as it may be, I would like to see a draft set up again to gain our military strength. Not too many of this Me Generation are willing to sacrifice and serve. We need to build up our military might and make it an obligation once again.

Retention is the biggest challenge to the military. The fact that there is no bonus to those that serve. Only certain jobs were considered. There is no bonus for qualification. No bonus for superiority. You get ribbons that matter for points on a test that you can barely get a change to advance. If the military wants to continue to become like a private sector business instead of a fighting force they should match corporate America. Another issue being that we are no longer the most advanced fighting force in the world. We care more about humanitarian missions than actually our own countries issues. All I can say at this point is good luck.

With a self-entitled, "woke", and gender-bender generation wanting to join the military, it is impossible to please the immature and accomplish the core mission we are designed for. It can't be done without jeopardizing our strength..Stand firm on principals, not cultural whims.

I believe the military's greatest challenge in 2023 is going to be the efficient utilization of resources through communication. The 5 branches include the Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Not to mention the National Guard and Reserve Forces. All of these branches have similar, yet vastly different policies, guidelines, programs, etc. not to mention different general outlooks/attitudes. The way each branch is inherently competitive with the others is used as a driving force to progress/optimize the way things are done. However, when one branch CLEARLY has a better program/process/etc. the other branches don't seem to want to acknowledge it and follow suit. I'm not saying each branch should completely drop their current programs and do exactly as the other does. However, there are clearly lessons to be learned from the successes and failures of the our fellow branches. The same successes and failures happen repetitively across each our military branches. This subsequently causes a massive waste of resources through many duplications of effort. It's almost as if each branch is trying to invent the same wheel in a different way, yet refusing to help one another as they learn what works and what doesn't. Pooling resources and collaborating with one another will only further the advancement of our military as a whole.

Dealing with memory loss, dementia and trying to get disability for ptsd

The military's greatest challenge in 2023 is the polarization of today's politics because it creates division between the American people, government systems etc.