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Friday, July 10, 2015

40,000 Soldiers Cut: Army Now Smaller Than Before 9/11

by Justin Johnson and Carl Best : Today, the Army is announcing that it is cutting another 40,000 soldiers, leaving the United States with an Army that is smaller than before Sept. 11, 2001.

However the cuts themselves aren’t news—Army leaders have been forecasting this cut for years due to the dramatic budget cuts they are facing.

What Americans should be worried about is how these cuts continue to weaken our national security.

While the Army is cutting their personnel, it is also dangerously untrained and unprepared for conflict.

In March, Gen. Ray Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army, testified to Congress saying, “the unrelenting budget impasse has compelled us to degrade readiness to historically low levels.”

He went on to say that only one third of U.S. Army brigades are ready for combat today.

Because of these cuts to readiness and force structure, Odierno concluded that the Army can no longer execute the strategy for defending America.

The cuts to their personnel and training have been too deep, and it appears that the cuts will continue.

The Army is facing these dramatic reductions to force structure and readiness for one reason—budget cuts.

Since 2011, the Army’s base budget has gone down by 17.6 percent in real terms.

If you include Overseas Contingency Operations funding, the Army budget has gone down by 41.8 percent since 2011.

These cuts are worse than the overall cuts to the national security budget, which went down 15 percent during the same period.

In 2011 there were 566,000 soldiers in the Army.

Now there are 490,000 and these cuts will drop that number to 450,000 by the end of 2017.

Today’s announcement details how and where the Army plans to cut 40,000 soldiers.

After these cuts are completed, the Army will be reduced to approximately 30 Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), 20 BCTs short of Heritage’s assessed minimum needed to keep the United States safe and secure.

The cuts have not been limited to Army personnel and training. Programs to modernize the Army have been slashed by 25 percent.

These important programs would have developed things like new infantry fighting vehicles and scout helicopters but have now been purged.

The Army’s future hangs in a delicate balance. Even if this 40,000 soldier cut is implemented, the Army budget situation is grim.

Gen. Odierno testified that, “in order for [this budget] to work, all of our proposed reforms in pay and compensation must be approved. All of our force structure reforms must be supported … we potentially face a $12 billion shortfall in our budget. If [Budget Control Act spending] caps remain, that adds another $6 billion in potential problems.”

More budget cuts could be in the works for the Army. If Congress and the president leave the national security spending caps in place the “tenuous house of cards” Odierno described will be severely threatened. Already unable to execute the Defense Strategic Guidance, sequestration would “compel us to reduce end strength even further.”

Given the threats facing the United States, now is not the time to divest our military capability and capacity.

Instead, Congress and the president should prevent these Army cuts and other debilitating cuts to our military.

The world is not getting safer, so the United States should not be naively cutting our ability to protect ourselves.
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Justin Johnson (@jus10j) specializes in defense budgets and policies for The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security and Foreign Policy. Carl Best writes The Daily Signal.

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Gary W. Engler said...

There are about 200 "sanctuary cities" in the U.S. In my humble opinion, every da*ned one of them is responsible for the crimes that occur in them by illegal aliens, and their legal citizens ought to rise up and change the status...wither that or tar-and-feather the ones who brought this condition on them...maybe both.

7/10/2015  
Anonymous Charlene R. Sanders said...

They deserve what the get. Eff em.

7/10/2015  
Anonymous Gary W. Engler said...

List of Sanctuary Cities
http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.html

7/10/2015  
Anonymous James Recknor said...

Obama will protect us with pretty colors and taking pride in perversion.

7/11/2015  
Anonymous Kathryn Rose Garza Wright said...

What a disgrace to the American People!

7/11/2015  
Anonymous Robert Gilson said...

Thank you congress... said no one ever.

7/15/2015  

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