US President Joe Biden during a meeting with members of the US 82nd Airborne Division in Poland. File photoMOSCOW, Jul 20The U.S. Department of Defense plans to reduce the size of the army due to an unprecedented shortage of recruits, writes the Associated Press. As the article notes, the armed forces will be short of about ten thousand people, while According to General Joseph Martin, the outlook for next year looks even bleaker. The number of troops this year will be about 466,400 people instead of the expected 476,000, and in 2023 will drop to 445,000 altogether. In just two and a half months before the end of the fiscal year, the army reached only 50 percent of its goal of recruiting 60,000 soldiers. According to American military leaders, at this rate, the shortfall will reach 25 percent by October 1. The Pentagon explains such a difficult situation in the troops by the fact that private companies offer much more favorable working conditions, so the army simply cannot compete with business. In this situation, the only optimal solution is to reduce the size of the armed forces, the Pentagon clarified. for one Biden decision
