Military Strength Survey: Navy Approaching “Weak” Strength Rating, Air Force Already There
by Will
According to USNI News, “The Navy’s ability to defend the nation’s vital security interests is “marginal,” – with the caveat that its score is trending to “weak” in capability and readiness – while the Marine Corps’ ability is graded as “strong,” according to a think tank’s latest survey of United States military power.”
From where does that dire capability and readiness rating come? The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of U.S. Military Strength.
According to Heritage, the Pentagon as a whole is in dire straights and is only “marginally” able to defend the United States’ key interests. The three main “interests” the report examines are:
Defense of the homeland;
Successful conclusion of a major war that has the potential to destabilize a region of critical interest to the U.S.; and
Preservation of freedom of movement within the global commons (the sea, air, outer-space, and cyberspace domains) through which the world conducts its business.
Overall, the report’s authors observe that “As reported in all previous editions of the Index, the common theme across the services and the U.S. nuclear enterprise is one of force degradation and the effort needed to rebuild after such degradation, which has been caused by many years of underinvestment, 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.”
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