Veterans no longer want their kids to enlist. Here’s why.
Lately, military-age males have stayed away from the military in droves. General officers and senior civilians in the Pentagon blame a poor public education system and decades of video games for creating a generation of young men not mentally and physically qualified to serve — and there is certainly some truth to that.
But if senior Pentagon officials want to get to the bottom of the Biden-era recruiting dip, they should look in the mirror and at the picture of the sitting president on the wall of virtually every office in the five-sided wind tunnel in Arlington, Virginia.
