Sep 14, 2023
The United States military's ability to defend this nation and her interests is declining by choice, and that is creating unacceptable risk, according to national defense expert Robert Greenway. That decline is not only because of a reduction in military spending and the aging out of equipment that's not being replaced quickly enough, it's also because attempts to socially engineer promotions and introduce woke policies in the military interfere with the necessary trust between service members and their leaders, according to Greenway, a retired Army Special Forces officer, career public servant, and principal architect of the historic Abraham Accords that brought the normalization of relations among Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. The number of Americans who trust military leaders has decreased to the lowest point since 2001, which has led to a crisis in recruitment and concerns about combat readiness. Greenway, the new director of The Heritage Foundation'