Military recruitment is in trouble, with the U.S. Army missing its goal by about 10,000 new soldiers in 2023. What’s causing the slowdown that has left the nation’s oldest service branch in peril even as threats around the world grow?
According to a new report, the shortfall is coming from a lack of white recruits, a problem that has grown progressively worse since 2018.
The Army‘s recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade, according to internal data reviewed by Military.com, a decline that accounts for much of the service’s historic recruitment slump that has become the subject of increasing concern for Army leadership and Capitol Hill.
The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall shortfall of about 10,000 recruits for the Army in 2023 as the service missed its target…
