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.
The Army‘s recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly, 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 of 65,000 new soldiers…
…A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant drop. No other demographic group has seen such a precipitous decline.
The Army is now having to absorb more deployments with fewer deployable soldiers, meaning those who do sign up are facing more time away from their families. In turn, that incentivizes potential recruits to look elsewhere. It’s a vicious cycle of stretching what is there while creating the conditions for continued failure to hit recruiting goals.
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