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5. Reform recruiting efforts. The Army missed its 2022 recruitment goal by 25 percent, or 15,000 soldiers.

Focus on deployability and sustained operations. The U.S. Army’s very lethal ground force capability is irrelevant if it cannot quickly deploy to locations for employment in decisive operations to secure our global security interests. Additionally, Army logisticians provide the ground transportation (of both personnel and equipment); fuel, food, and water; munitions (bombs and bullets); medical supplies and services; and veterinary services (food safety) that are critical to sustainment of the other services.

1. Immediately increase the production and stockpiling of critical munitions and repair parts.

2. Prioritize expeditionary logistics in all force design and operational planning to guarantee entry into a contested theater of war.

3. Increase the level of Joint Force training, synchronization, and coordination focused on logistics.

4. Prepare to deploy forces from degraded U.S.-based transportation infrastructure that is compromised by opposing forces.

Transform Army culture and training. The Army can no longer serve

as the nation’s social testing ground. A rebuilt Army that is focused again on its core warfighting mission and empowered it with the tools, resources, and authorities it needs to accomplish that mission must be the next Administration’s highest defense priority.

1. Stop using the Army as a test bed for social evolution. Misusing the Army in this way detracts from its core purpose while doing little to reshape the American social structure. The Army no longer reflects national demographics to the degree that it did before 1974 when the draft was eliminated.

2. Demand accountability in senior leaders to reverse the decline in public support for military service.

3. Reestablish the experiential base for the planning, execution, and leadership of Army formations in large-scale operations. Currently,