US Military Is ‘Right There on the Edge.’ Here’s What’s Driving Its ‘Marginal’ Status.
Christian Mysliwiec / @cmysliwiec / October 21, 2021
The U.S. Air Force was ranked “weak,” and the overall military ranked “marginal,” in The Heritage Foundation's 2022 Index of U.S. Military Strength. Pictured: A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet flies near Colombia's Rionegro airport during joint military drills of the Colombian and U.S. air forces on July 12. (Photo: Joaquin Sarmiento/ AFP/Getty Images)
With aging equipment, a lack of adequate funding, and limited production capabilities, the U.S. military is ranked “marginal” at best. That’s the conclusion of the 2022 Index of U.S. Military Strength, an annual report from The Heritage Foundation that assesses the status of the military and the global threat level to the United States, which was released Wednesday.
“It’s right there on the edge. It could handle one major war for, we believe, a limited period of time, but it couldn’t do anything other than that,” said Dakota Wood, the lead editor of the index and a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
Wood joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the findings of the latest index.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/21/us-military-is-right-there-on-the-edge-heres-whats-driving-its-marginal-status/
