The Pentagon wanted to improve the willingness to war and failed: the department did not reach its goals in improving the combat readiness. This is stated in the report of the Fiscal Department of the American Congress (GAO).
According to the report, from 2017 to 2019, the Pentagon was able to increase the agenicity only in the ground sphere. Changes in the air, cosmic and cyber spheres were “ambiguous”, and in the sea – and not sufficient. In general, GAO recognized that the increase in combat readiness in these areas did not fit the goals.
The US Defense Ministry agreed with the conclusions of the authors of the report.
April 6 reported that in 2020, among the American military recorded a record number of suicides. In the second quarter, this figure rose by 11.3 percent, and in the third – by 22 percent compared with 2019. At the same time, the main increase fell on employees of the National Guard and reservists.