While China and Russia and others focus on preparing their military, under Senile Biden the focus has changed to partisan ideology which is weakening American national security.
The new WOKE armed forces has focused on things like transgender indoctrination, intentional racial divide, the Afghanistan pullout disaster, political purges, not to mention vaccine mandates
As a result, more armed forces members are leaving, disgusted with this new leadership and direction and they are struggling to recruit replacements. For example:
JUST IN: Army raises maximum bonus for new recruits to $50,000 as it struggles to lure soldiers during COVID-19 pandemic - AP
I personally have multiple relatives that are in the Armed Forces and have been disgusted with some of the recent changes. One has retired, another did not re-up.