By Shabbir Rizvi
The US military may see a second consecutive year of failure to meet its recruitment goals.
Despite loosening restrictions, adding new “incentives,” and deploying massive promotional campaigns, various branches of the US military are struggling to enlist new personnel - a sign of not only the declining mental and physical health of Americans but also growing disdain for American wars.
Many have described the failure to meet the military’s recruitment goals as a “crisis.” After all, it was not too long ago when Americans, in a drunken flurry by the post-9/11 war drive, flocked to recruitment centers. The early 2000s saw some of the highest increase in numbers for the military.
Fast forward 20 years.
In 2022, the US Army missed its recruiting goal by 25 percent - some 15,000 soldiers. In a bid to meet its recruitment numbers, the Army invested $100,000,000 in schools meant to push potential recruitments into qualifying mental and physical shape.......more below
The US‑Israeli war with Iran has entered its tenth day with more airstrikes across the region
Iran has carried out a new series of strikes on US military sites across the Middle East, targeting Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has reported. A high-rise government building in Kuwait City has also been hit by a drone, according to Bloomberg.
As of Sunday, the US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians, the Islamic Republic’s official data shows.
US President Donald Trump has denied responsibility for the strike on a girls’ elementary school in the south of the Islamic Republic on February 28 that killed at least 175 people, suggesting instead that the Iranians were to blame and calling their munitions “very inaccurate.”....more below
https://www.rt.com/news/633831-us-israeli-war-on-iran-live-updates/
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the missile units of its ground forces have precisely hit the US terrorist base in Kuwait’s Arifjan as well as separatist positions in Iran’s northwestern areas.
The IRGC said in a statement on Sunday that the US base was hit by precision guided missiles.
The missile units also accurately struck the separatist positions at two northwestern points in Iran.
28, the United States and the Israeli regime launched their unprovoked military assault on Iran, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and top military commanders.
Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the criminal aggression by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on the US bases in regional countries.Iran has repeatedly emphasized that it only targets American positions and bases in the region and does not seek conflict with Arab countries.
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The spokesperson for Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Iran's highest operational command unit, says Iranian forces carried out a missile strike against a US military installation following an attack on a desalination facility in southern Islamic Republic.
Speaking on Saturday, Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari said the response followed aggression originating from the Naval Support Activity Bahrain, which is a United States Navy base that serves as the home to US Naval Forces Central Command and United States Fifth Fleet.
"In response to the aggression by American terrorists from the Juffair base against the Qeshm desalination facility, that American base was immediately struck by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) using precision solid-fuel missiles,” he noted.
The official described the strike as a direct response to the attack on the facility located on Qeshm Island.
Impact of earlier strikes on enemy radar
The spokesman also referred to earlier stages of Iranian reprisal ...
