{"id":1986957,"date":"2023-07-31T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-confidence-in-us-military-at-lowest-point-in-25-years\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:19:19","slug":"poll-confidence-in-us-military-at-lowest-point-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-confidence-in-us-military-at-lowest-point-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Confidence Hits 25-Year Low"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fpoll-confidence-in-us-military-at-lowest-point-in-25-years%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=1986957&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--><h2>Americans&#8217; Confidence in the Military Hits\u200b a 25-Year Low<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>A Pride Month celebration on a\u200c Navy\u200b ship (Credit: U.S. Navy, Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A recent Gallup poll has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-floyd-county-georgia-terminates-election-director-after-statewide-audit-discovers-uncounted-votes\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Floyd County, Georgia Terminates Election Director After Statewide Audit Discovers Uncounted Votes\">revealed<\/a> that Americans&#8217; confidence in the military has reached its \u200blowest point since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u2062 the poll, only 60\u2063 percent\u2064 of Americans currently have confidence in the military, marking\u2064 a significant decline over the \u200cpast 25 years. This decline in\u200b confidence cuts across political lines, with Republicans experiencing\u200d a drastic drop of \u2062over 20 points in the last three years. Democrats&#8217; confidence has\u2064 decreased by 6 points in the past year, while independents have seen\u200d a sharp decline of 13 points since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>These findings come in the wake\u2062 of warnings from a\u2062 panel of military veterans \u200cwho testified before\u200b Congress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-health-nominee-mum-on-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\" title=\"Biden Health Nominee Mum On Taxpayer Funded Abortion\">expressing concerns<\/a> about the Biden\u2062 administration&#8217;s focus on \u200d&#8221;woke&#8221; measures. The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reported that these measures \u2062have contributed to a &#8220;once-in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-confidence-in-us-military-at-lowest-point-in-25-years\/\" title=\"US Military Confidence Hits 25-Year Low\">-a-generation military recruitment \u200dcrisis<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March, retired Army captain Jeremy\u200b Hunt \u200cand other experts highlighted the impact of the administration&#8217;s emphasis on &#8220;Diversity, \u200cEquity, \u200band Inclusion (DEI) \u200dtraining.&#8221; They pointed out that the Army fell &#8220;a historic 15,000 soldiers short \u2064of its recruitment \u200cgoal&#8221; due to the mandatory completion of &#8220;11-week resident DEI\u200c training classes.&#8221; Meanwhile, the Chinese military continues \u2062to\u200b grow, \u2063and the Russian military is engaged in conflict with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt emphasized\u2062 that these &#8220;woke&#8221; initiatives\u200c have left the military\u200d &#8220;unfocused, untrained, unmanned, \u200dand unprepared for\u200c combat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a congressional\u2064 hearing, \u2064Navy\u2064 veteran and Heritage \u2064Foundation\u200c senior research fellow\u2062 Brent Sadler revealed that the Pentagon has invested approximately $114 million into DEI programs.\u2062 Sadler argued that these\u2062 programs have had a &#8220;corrosive impact&#8221; and have contributed to the decline in public \u200cfaith\u2062 in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup&#8217;s research also indicates that confidence in other institutions, such as the\u2064 Supreme Court and the presidency, \u2063has reached historically low\u200d levels, with only 27 percent and 26 percent of Americans expressing\u200b confidence in \u200bthese \u2063respective\u2062 institutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Gallup poll reveals that Americans&#8217; confidence in the military has hit a 25-year low, dropping to just 60%. 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