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The Navy has 31 amphibious ships — what the Corps considers the bare minimum it needs — but the Pentagon plans to shrink the fleet in fiscal 2024.

The Pentagon "is facing its most challenging recruitment environment in 50 years," according to the Government Accountability Office, the main federal watchdog, in a report that frames recruitment and retention as one of the critical "challenges to national security."

Recent Pentagon data indicates the Army and Navy have fallen well short of their recruitment goals this fiscal year, posing a threat to national security.

Experience shows that blended warfare will happen more often thanexpected in one conflict and that hybrid conflict will demand creative approaches to operational problems, including the need forad hoc, modular composite units. As Army leaders create an updatedmodernization plan, they will be wise not to think of modernizationin a vacuum, but to plan for a future force of legacy and modernplatforms.

In this week's episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Mackenzie Eaglen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, addresses the challenging questions