Gen Z Recruiting Shortfall Prompts Order for New Pentagon Survey

The Pentagon’s troop shortfall is directly linked to the military services’ failed recruitment efforts, and “not external factors beyond their control,” House lawmakers say in a report accompanying the Pentagon’s $826 billion spending measure for fiscal 2024.

The Defense Appropriations subcommittee members say they’re concerned that the Pentagon is using “inadequate” methodology in surveys that the military services use to explain the reluctance of youth to serve in the armed forces.

The US military is facing its greatest recruiting challenge in almost half a century, since the inception of the volunteer service. The US depends on strong, all-volunteer forces to ...