{"id":153766,"date":"2024-02-29T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=153766"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:01:40","slug":"the-us-army-is-revamping-its-force-structure-to-deal-with-future-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=153766","title":{"rendered":"The US Army is revamping its force structure to deal with future wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Army is planning to cut thousands of jobs, by up to 24,000, as it moves to restructure in anticipation for the next major war. However, the Army says that this will not involve actual service members being asked to leave. Instead, billets that are not filled will be cut, such as unfilled billets related to the Global War on Terror. The Army plans to increase its ability to deal with current realities like the heavy use of drones demonstrated in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

From Fox 43:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The planned overhaul comes after two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan that forced the Army to quickly and dramatically expand in order to fill the brigades sent to the battlefront. That included a massive counter-insurgency mission to battle al-Qaida, the Taliban and the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n

Over time the military’s focus has shifted to great power competition from adversaries such as China and Russia, and threats from Iran and North Korea. And the war in Ukraine has shown the need for greater emphasis on air-defense systems and high-tech abilities both to use and counter airborne and sea-based drones.<\/p>\n

Army leaders said they looked carefully across the board at all the service’s job specialties in search of places to trim. And they examined the ongoing effort to modernize the Army, with new high-tech weapons, to determine where additional forces should be focused.<\/p>\n

According to the plan, the Army will cut about 10,000 spaces for engineers and similar jobs that were tied to counter-insurgency missions. An additional 2,700 cuts will come from units that don’t deploy often and can be trimmed, and 6,500 will come from various training and other posts.<\/p>\n

There also will be about 10,000 posts cut from cavalry squadrons, Stryker brigade combat teams, infantry brigade combat teams and security force assistance brigades, which are used to train foreign forces.<\/p>\n

The changes represent a significant shift for the Army to prepare for large-scale combat operations against more sophisticated enemies. But they also underscore the steep recruiting challenges that all of the military services are facing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox 43 has additional information here<\/a>. The Military Times provides additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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