By J.M. Phelps Mar. 1, 2024 10:20 am
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By fiscal year 2029, the U.S. Army plans to cut its force by 24,000 soldiers as part of a restructuring effort it purports will help prepare itself for future wars. The goal is to purge itself of a “largely unmanned ‘hollow’ force structure and build new formations equipped with new capabilities needed for large scale combat operations.” The result, it maintains, is “a high state of readiness.”
With the Army failing to meet its recruiting goals by 26,000 recruits in the previous two fiscal years, it also hopes to address its shortfalls and “build back its end strength.”
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Lt. Col. Darin Gaub (USA-Ret.), a former UH-60 Blackhawk pilot and co-founder of the nonprofit Restore Liberty. “There needs to be an honest conversation about how [the Army] is going to reduce by 24,000 while also falling short of its recruiting goals,” he suggested. “The issue then becomes, what kind of people is the Army short versus what kind of people are excess by specialty?”
Either way, he questions whether the restructuring will “truly focus on fighting and winning our nation’s wars or something else.” For example, is the Army maintaining positions to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training? In his opinion, “These are the kinds of positions that need to be dropped and turned into warfighting positions.”
“Critical functions [of the Army] could suffer by cutting a number like 24,000,” Gaub argued, lamenting that “[the number] is equivalent to four Army Brigade Combat Teams, or most of a Division [and] that’s a lot of combat power lost.”
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