{"id":1702076,"date":"2022-10-19T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702076"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:18:22","slug":"u-s-military-strength-falls-to-lowest-rating-ever-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-strength-falls-to-lowest-rating-ever-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Strength Falls to Lowest Rating Ever 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\">20<\/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%2Fu-s-military-strength-falls-to-lowest-rating-ever-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=1702076&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--><p>The U.S. military in 2022, under the leadership of President Joe Biden, received its lowest ever rating this week in a newly released exhaustive analysis from the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Index of U.S. Military Strength <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/military-strength\/executive-summary\">assessed<\/a> a wide range of areas, including threats to the U.S., the condition of the U.S. military, U.S. alliances, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal\u2019s Editorial Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/americas-growing-military-weakness-heritage-foundation-index-of-u-s-military-strength-navy-air-force-army-11666029967\">noted<\/a> that the assessment\u2019s \u201cweak\u201d rating of the U.S. military was the first time it has ever received the score in the index\u2019s nine-year history.<\/p>\n<p>While the assessment found that the global operating environment from the U.S. perspective was largely favorable across the board, threats to the U.S. are rapidly increasing, with numerous nations posing a \u201chigh\u201d threat against U.S. interests. The chief threats come from China and Russia, with Iran, North Korea, and others lagging behind.<\/p>\n<p>In the portion of the assessment that focused on the power of the U.S. military, the analysis looked at capability, capacity, and readiness.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment include the United States\u2019 nuclear capability as a separate branch in the U.S. military because \u201cof its truly unique characteristics and constituent elements, from the weapons themselves to the supporting infrastructure that is fundamentally different from the infrastructure that supports conventional capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The assessment noted that the U.S. military is being degraded through \u201cunderinvestment, poor execution of modernization programs, and the negative effects of budget sequestration (cuts in funding) on readiness and capacity in spite of repeated efforts by Congress to provide relief from low budget ceilings imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skyrocketing inflation rates that were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlescwcooke\/status\/1580538409172733953\">fueled<\/a> by Biden\u2019s agenda have led to greater expenses for the military, which erased progress made at the end of the Trump-era in increasing the U.S. military\u2019s readiness.<\/p>\n<p>The scores that were given out included \u201cvery weak,\u201d \u201cweak,\u201d \u201cmarginal,\u201d \u201cstrong,\u201d and \u201cvery strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quick highlights from the assessment:<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Army\u00a0\u2014 \u201cMarginal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Army is aging faster than it is modernizing. It remains \u2018weak\u2019 in capacity with only 62 percent of the force it should have. However, 25 of its 31 Regular Army BCTs are at the highest state of readiness, thus earning a readiness score of \u2018very strong\u2019 and conveying the sense that the service knows what it needs to do to prepare for the next major conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Navy \u2014 \u201cWeak\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis worrisome score, a drop from \u2018marginal\u2019 assessed in the 2022 Index, is driven by problems in capacity (\u2018very weak\u2019) and readiness (\u2018weak\u2019). This Index assesses that the Navy needs a battle force of 400 manned ships to do what is expected of it today. The Navy\u2019s current battle force fleet of 298 ships and intensified operational tempo combine to reveal a service that is much too small relative to its tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Air Force \u2014 \u201cVery Weak\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Air Force has been downgraded once again, the second time in the past two years. The Air Force was assessed as \u2018marginal\u2019 in the 2021 Index but, with public reporting of the mission readiness and physical location of combat aircraft implying that it would have a difficult time responding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military in 2022, under the leadership of President Joe Biden, received its lowest ever rating this week in a newly released exhaustive analysis from the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Index of U.S. Military Strength assessed a wide range of areas, including threats to the U.S., the condition of the U.S. military, U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702076","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}