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

I think getting the youth of today to want to service their country, I think there is misinformation about this country and its History.

In my opinion, the US military needs to put a halt to any validation of the Woke philosophy and to remove it from all educational materials. Wokeness is weakening our armed forces and destroying our ability to fight. Our enemies want to defeat us and the Woke in our military don't need to do our adversaries mission for them.

Transgender people it's crazy unsafe and are military should not have transgender people in it and I think the don't ask do t tell policy should be put back in place! Nobody cares is a man likes having intercourse with another man

The military and nation's greatest challenge is the moral decay in leadership/doctrine causing a lack of national respect and honor via indoctrination of a Socialist agenda politically and a rejection of GOD in society. Example: this administration agenda cannot define a Woman and where emphasis on racism is a disgraceful priority. D, E, and I indoctrination attempts to change our culture where the nation's founders wrote the Constitution via prayer! The government agencies no longer support lunch-time Bible Study/Prayer but has forced mandatory gender training on civilians and military personnel. The Bible cites Ps. 33:12, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD!" Corruption reigns in the U.S.; Colleges indoctrinate students with an agenda where killing of babies and gender issues are categorized as Human Rights! God made man and woman, and even though this nation supports civil unions as men with men, etc. which is not of GOD.
Why is there a lack of young people wanting to serve this country? We teach racism/sexism to elementary school children resulting in confused and rebellious generation which lack respect of authority. This nation is in a moral/spiritual decline and creates victims via Gov't dependence for free money and college loans hindering individual work ethic. This philosophy is destroying the nuclear family, instituted by GOD as Holy Marriage/family and uses racism to deceive many, such as Black Lives Matter. God made one human race with many ethnicities, and now we are taught via D,E, & I to reject God but identify however one feels. The only name needed in the workplace is your name, not your sexual or gender preference. When you attack children's development division is spread to reject authority so why would young persons want to join the military with strict rules and regulations foundation. God is not pleased with this generation, similar to Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. We ever changes, and what He institutes, Life (not abortion), Male/Female (Marriage), 4 Seasons, Government, and the Church belongs for His purpose. JESUS is the only answer for the U.S. and the world for it all belongs to HIM; we are just dominated by our Sin nature of pride, lust, and love of money! In summary, the world is lost and our youth are confused lacking hope via teachings received to destroy statutes and protest anything based of emotion and lack of the Truth! Apart from God we cannot breathe, move, or love self or others and definitely would not want to serve our country which is total division, for it takes sacrifice and respect for all ethnicities for greater good, the United States of America. It is a disgrace to every Veteran to see Coaches/Professional athletes teach youth to kneel on the U.S. Flag where so many relatives dies defending the flag! Our greatest challenge is to find leaders who will love GOD with respect and accountability to all, which can be developed during military service via relationships with all ethnicities supporting one nation under GOD!
Thanks, Michael Bailey

Troop strength,budget cuts,woke foolishness,transgenderism,homosexual doctrine,basic training is way too soft on our new recruits.We need warriors not coddled adults. Let's fire the Generals who botched leaving Afganistan and leaving Americans behind. Not to mention Billions of $ in equipment for our enemies to use against our allies and our troops.We have abandoned our core beliefs in service to our nation and our citizens here and abroad. Our military is not respected because our leadership is not respected. Our core values have been eroded away due to a tide of anti-american attitudes that flood our upper echelon of leaders that lack a back bone to stand against public opinion. This is what I believe to be a divided house that if goes unchecked will be our fall. We need return to what our forefather's wrote in the founding of this country. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness through the foundation of Christian Judeo beliefs. We need to return to our knee's and pray for foregiveness and guidence. And then we can stand for what is right, what is Holy and what is true. It is these fundamental truth's that made this country the greatest country that history has ever been recorded. And without them we will be the greatest country that had the greatest fall that history will record.

I feel that the military’s greatest challenge in 2023 is trust. There are many people who serve and put their trust in their peers and superiors and too often are let down.

The constant pollicization of the military and the growing belief that Military leaders are trying to weaken the military

When I served, we trained to defend our country, there was no such thing as ESG, CRT "Equity" etc type of training "required", we had leaders who actually had a backbone, who didn't tell the enemy, "oh btw, we're going to be pulling all our troops out on this date/time..." or "I will call you if we decide to come invade your country...", nor did we lose soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines just because they refused to take a shot of something that never worked to protect us anyway. Learning that this great country is "racist" is more of a priority than knowing how to break down your weapon and put it back to together? This CIC and Joint Chiefs are all part of the One Delta Ten Tango group and if this continues, our military will not be prepared to defend our country, imho!

We have very weak minded leadership in the Pentagon, especially Milley! His devotion to the wokeism B S is the Achilles heel of our military! There are too many others like him! I would never serve under him or his ilk nor do I recommend that any others do either! This is why we have such low enlistment rates! Liberalism, progressivism rot, kill and destroy! There are way too many of that warped philosophy in our military fomented by the incompetence and unqualification of biden! It seems that every time there is a democRAT president, we have a war that republicans have to clean up! I know that I will not win this prize nor will anyone else who feels as I do! It will be someone who is willing to kiss up to the powers that be! That's OK, I care a lot more for my country than that!

Everyone is so sensitive now! It takes a certain mental toughness to be able to defend your country and the training has drastically changed to accommodate the soldier's feelings. If you can't be yelled at or mentally/physically pushed to your limit, how will you survive battle?