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

Making sure candidates can be trusted with sensitive information who can and who can't. After this recent top secret leak on the web the military needs to keep a watchful eye on OPSEC.

I've been out of the military for over 3 years now, and have tried to distance myself from it due to a difference in understanding and a lack of faith on my part. And that, I think is going to be a growing issue for the military and the United States in general: a lack of faith and trust that the U.S. Government and it's military is acting in the best interest of itself, it's people, and it's allies. I don't believe this to be a result of any particular administration, but to a change in how millennials and Gen Z perceives the United States and the rest of the world.

Recruitment will continue to be the biggest problem. It will restrict preparedness and the ability to react quickly in a crisis. Readiness will also be harmed by lack of equipment and ammunition. Politics is not supposed to drive the military but Patriotism.

Most significant challenge is troop/fleet readiness hindered by DoD mismanagement and wokeism.

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Lack of resiliency in today's young people and recruitment. Today's young people seem to lack resilience and cannot or won't come into the military. Hard to blame them when you see how things have changed of the past couple of years. I talk to recruiters monthly and they tell me constantly about the lack of new bodies or the lack of eligible new bodies coming through their doors. It's become a sad state of affairs.

Poor troop readiness due to lack of good recruits and all branches not equipped to fight any boots on the ground or naval battles.

The effectiveness of our military is dependent on the quality of personnel recruited and trained in a fashion which emphasizes honesty and commitment to the missions of each branch of service. Military personnels' recognition of our nation's ethnic, gender and religious diversity must always be secondary to our primary mission to support and defend our nation against foreign and domestic threats to the sovereignty of this great nation. National conscription should be revisited to assurance everyone participates equally in the defense and future of our republic.