Deep cuts in Army, EUCOM downsizing among plans pushed by 2 Trump defense strategists
Posted by Street_Exercise_4844
Deep cuts in Army, EUCOM downsizing among plans pushed by 2 Trump defense strategists
Posted by Street_Exercise_4844
4 Comments
TLDR:
Trumps team has proposed cutting 12 Army Brigades and giving the money to the Navy and Air Force with a focus on China
It’ll be one of the largest transformations of our Military in recent years
To put these numbers in context, 12 Brigades represent about 15% of the total Brigades in the Army. The Brigades cut will be majority National Guard, but some Active units cut as well.
The Navy will reactive old Cruisers, increase acquisition of new Frigates and Submarines, accelerate procurement of “Drone Ships” and improve national shipbuilding infrastructure
The Air Force will accelerate new Aircraft development, aquire more F-35s, and procure more Drones
Both will also stockpile larger numbers of Anti-Ship, Anti-Aircraft, and Land Attack missiles
>retire the A-10 finally
NCD civil war incoming
>They’ll have to be backfilled by our NATO allies
Yeah *surely* those alliances will still exist by the time all this gets implemented
>all the Air Force’s A-10C aircraft would be retired, according to the report’s recommendations.
Blessed be
this is one of those things i agree with on the surface(army too big, navy and AF too small imo) but because its trump im extremely skeptical