America’s military has a criminally inane reinvestment strategy. Despite being 250 years in the business of molding civilians into soldiers, our services seem unaware their most valuable asset for the future fighting force is the veteran. Grand military parades in the nation’s capital for the Army, iconic Fleet Weeks for its seagoing forces and rousing 250th birthday galas for the US Marine Corps are all well and good touchpoints along the ongoing democratic civil-military-relations journey, but without a deep consideration of the civic and national-security roles the veteran plays, the armed forces and the nation are doomed to relive severe recruitment crises they’ve only recently crawled out of.
America’s military has a criminally inane reinvestment strategy.
Despite being 250 years in the business of molding civilians into soldiers, our services seem unaware their most valuable asset for the future fighting force is the veteran.
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Source: New York Post | Published: 2025-12-29T02:00:11Z
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