The U.S. Army Has a Recruitment Problem. Here's How to Solve It

Col. Carmelia Scott-Skillern, Chief of Staff of the Army Senior Fellow at New America, and New America Strategist Peter W. Singer write on how the U.S. Army has a recruitment problem, and how to solve it in TIME.

The difficulty of recruiting the U.S. Army’s next generation has become not only one of the biggest challenges for the future of the force, but also perhaps its biggest political football.

[...] So what is actually happening, and what can be done to have a real effect? The short answer is that the Army faces a combination of challenges beyond its control that link to problems of its own making. Fortunately, each has a ready set of responses in three areas.

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