WND by Art Moore
An annual ranking of U.S. military strength has ranked the nation’s armed forces as “weak” for the first time.
American armed forces are “at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests,” assessed the Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength, the Washington Examiner reported.
“It is rated as weak relative to the force needed to defend national interests on a global stage against actual challenges in the world as it is rather than as we wish it were,” the index said.
“This is the logical consequence of years of sustained use, underfunding, poorly defined priorities, wildly shifting security policies, exceedingly poor discipline in program execution, and a profound lack of seriousness across the national security establishment even as threats to U.S. interests have surged.”…
