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
My (Rasheed's) thoughts: instead of condemnations, show your outrage by striking back harder than they struck!
The civilian facility in Lebanon operated by a local partner was attacked without provocation, a Russian agency has said.
Moscow has accused Israel of an “unprovoked act of aggression” after Israeli forces struck a Russian cultural center in Lebanon.
The attack on the facility in the southern city of Nabatieh was reported on Sunday by its director, Asaad Diya, who said the building was empty at the time. Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international humanitarian cooperation agency, which has an official office in Beirut, said its staff remain in contact with Lebanese partners and are actively providing relief to civilians affected by the hostilities.
Israel renewed airstrikes and ground operations in Lebanon earlier this month, targeting the militant movement Hezbollah, after joining the US in a regime-change war against Iran.
Rossotrudnichestvo stressed that the ...
