“The military is too small, it’s too old in terms of the equipment it uses and it’s too unready,” said retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and editor of the military strength index.
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“The Army knows what it needs to do, but it struggles with adequate funding for its programs,” said Mr. Wood, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
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