{"id":1085243,"date":"2021-12-04T23:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1085243"},"modified":"2021-12-04T23:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:28:43","slug":"survey-americans-with-high-confidence-in-u-s-military-drops-11-percent-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-americans-with-high-confidence-in-u-s-military-drops-11-percent-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Americans with High Confidence in U.S. Military Drops 11 Percent Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurvey-americans-with-high-confidence-in-u-s-military-drops-11-percent-under-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1085243&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ipiccy_image-8-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Americans with a \u201cgreat deal of confidence\u201d in the U.S. military dropped a staggering 11 percent from February under Commander in Chief Joe Biden, according to a survey released Friday by the Ronald Reagan Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganfoundation.org\/media\/358085\/rndf_survey_booklet.pdf\">Reagan National Defense Survey<\/a>&nbsp;showed that the percentage of Americans having a great deal of trust and confidence in the U.S. military was only 45 percent \u2014 the first time that number has dropped below 50 percent since the survey was first conducted in 2018.&nbsp;It is also a steep drop from 56 percent in February 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The institute said in its summary, \u201cAlmost a year into the Biden Administration and a few months removed from the Afghanistan withdrawal, the American people are equivocal and unsure about U.S. global leadership and military capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The drop continues a trend \u2014 though not as precipitous \u2014 of declining American confidence in the U.S. military, which stood at 70 percent in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to a summary by the institute, confidence has fallen among Republicans by 34 points, among Independents by 28 points, and among Democrats by 17 points since 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the military is still at the top of America\u2019s trusted institutions, the trend of declining trust is occurring more rapidly for the military than for other public institutions such as law enforcement, the presidency, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the news media, according to the summary.<\/p>\n<p>Among those with little or not much confidence in the military, the most common answer was \u201cpolitical leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is particularly low belief in the relative strength of America\u2019s military leadership and manpower,\u201d the survey summary said.<\/p>\n<p>Only 33 percent think that the U.S. military leadership is the best in the world, whereas 42% think it is one of the best. There are better numbers for enlisted service members, with 36 percent&nbsp;believing the U.S. military is the best in the world, while 46 percent think it one of the best.<\/p>\n<p>The survey showed that Americans were unsure about the military\u2019s ability to perform its core responsibilities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The survey showed that only 57 percent have a great deal&nbsp;of confidence in the U.S. military\u2019s ability to keep the country safe, and only 42 percent have a great deal of confidence in its ability to win a war. Only 40 percent had confidence in the U.S. military\u2019s ability to act in a professional and nonpolitical manner.<\/p>\n<p>The survey showed that 50 percent supported the U.S. military using part of its budget to address climate change, but 39 percent opposed it. The support was mostly from Democrats, and opposition mostly from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted from October 25-November 7, 2021 by a bipartisan team of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw &amp; Company Research (R). There were 2,523 respondents, with an estimated margin of error of&nbsp;+\/- 1.96 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The bleak survey comes after a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August that left Americans on both sides of the aisle wondering about the competence of the Biden administration as well as U.S. military leadership.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes amid the Biden Pentagon\u2019s focus on rooting out \u201cextremists\u201d from the military, as well as on diversity and gender, and climate change. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is the first defense secretary to appoint senior advisers on \u201cdiversity, inclusion and human capital\u201d and climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans with a \u201cgreat deal of confidence\u201d in the U.S. military dropped a staggering 11 percent from February under Commander in Chief Joe Biden, according to a survey released Friday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}