Confidence in American military drops under Biden

 Breitbart:

Americans with a great deal of confidence in the U.S. military dropped a staggering 11 percentage points from February under Commander in Chief Joe Biden, according to a survey released Friday by the Ronald Reagan Institute.

The Reagan National Defense Survey showed that the percentage of Americans having a great deal of trust and confidence in the U.S. military is only 45 percent — the first time that number has dropped below 50 percent since the survey was first conducted in 2018. It is also a steep drop from 56 percent in February 2021.

The institute said in its summary, “Almost a year into the Biden Administration and a few months removed from the Afghanistan withdrawal, the American people are equivocal and unsure about U.S. global leadership and military capabilities.”

The drop continues a trend — though not as precipitous — of declining American confidence in the U.S. military, which stood at 70 percent in 2018.

According to a summary by the institute, confidence has fallen among Republicans by 34 points, among Independents by 28 points, and among Democrats by 17 points since 2018.

While the military is still at the top of America’s trusted institutions, the trend of declining trust is occurring more rapidly for the military than for other public institutions such as law enforcement, the presidency, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the news media, according to the summary.

Among those with little or not much confidence in the military, the most common answer was “political leadership.”

“There is particularly low belief in the relative strength of America’s military leadership and manpower,” the survey summary said.
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Biden and Milly's Afghan debacle probably contributed to this drop.  I sense a general lack of leadership at the top and would support the replacement of the current Joint Chiefs.  Biden's leadership is also inept and half-assed.  

Because the military top leadership is pretty immune to questions from the ranks as demonstrated by the court marshall of a Marine Lt. Colonel who asked that leaders be held accountable for the Afghan debacle, it is probably going to take a GOP Congress to investigate the problem the Democrats don't want to admit how screwed up the military has become under Biden and Austin.

See, also:

Trump calls Milley a 'f---ing idiot' over Afghanistan withdrawal

And: 

Top experts warn that the standing of the US as the 'partner of choice' for global allies has waned after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan

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