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US Military Faces Unprecedented Recruitment Crisis: A Threat to National Security?
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The United States military stands at a critical crossroads, grappling with the most severe recruitment shortfall in five decades. As young Americans increasingly turn away from military service, citing a range of concerns from eligibility standards to deep-seated issues within the armed forces, the nation faces a looming crisis that threatens its future defense capabilities.

This alarming trend underscores a fundamental shift in the relationship between the military and the society it vows to protect, posing significant questions about national security and the evolving nature of patriotism.

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address