In the past year we have been bombarded by stories about the military – particularly the Army, experiencing a recruiting crisis that has caused major shortfalls in manning the force. There are various reasons given for this recruiting shortfall. From pushback against the “woke” military by traditional military families to non-participation by normally liberal/progressive communities, the impact of the Afghan debacle and the mismanaged “Global War On Terror” (GWOT) conflicts of the first two decades of the 21st century to highly publicized veteran’s issues (suicide etc.), the ...