{"id":1114,"date":"2025-01-27T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:27:47","slug":"us-army-needs-huge-shakeup-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/us-army-needs-huge-shakeup-vance\/","title":{"rendered":"US army needs huge shakeup \u2013\u00a0Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vice president has called for \u201cbig change\u201d in the Pentagon, citing systemic cost overruns and recruitment issues<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US has failed to win a single war in several generations despite spending staggering sums of money on its army, Vice President J.D. Vance has said, calling for a major military overhaul.<\/p>\n

In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Vance defended the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as the new secretary of defense, which narrowly passed the Senate with a 50-50 tie broken by the vice president himself. Hegseth has faced criticism over his controversial public comments about Islam, limited leadership experience, and accusations of sexual assault, which he has denied.<\/p>\n

Vance described Hegseth as a \u201cdisruptor\u201d<\/em> and said he was the right person to usher in long-overdue change. \u201cWe fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven\u2019t won a war about as long as I\u2019ve been alive,\u201d<\/em> Vance said.
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\u201cThey\u2019ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that\u2019s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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The US has \u201cgotten into way too many wars that we don\u2019t have a plan for winning,\u201d<\/em> Vance said, adding that \u201cwe have to really, top to bottom, change the way that we fund the procurement of weapons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hegseth \u201cis the guy to lead the job,\u201d<\/em> he insisted, adding that the new secretary, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the one who sees \u201cnot through the perspective of the generals or the bureaucrats, [but] through the perspective of the men and women that we send off to fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has vowed to end the current conflicts, having already credited himself with brokering the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, while vowing to prioritize domestic issues. Shortly after his inauguration, he ordered additional troops to the US-Mexico border to stave off the migration crisis.<\/p>\n

In November, the Pentagon failed its seventh consecutive audit, having been unable to fully account for its $824 billion budget. It has not passed a single audit since 2018, when it became a legal requirement to do so. However, officials have pointed to visible progress, promising to achieve a clean audit by 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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