US Army is cutting over 24,000 posts despite ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine I KNOW WHY

The US Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5 per cent, and restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war, as the service struggles with recruiting shortfalls that made it impossible to bring in enough soldiers to fill all the jobs.

The cuts will mainly be in already-empty posts — not actual soldiers — including in jobs related to counterinsurgency that swelled during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars but are not needed as much today. About 3,000 of the cuts would come from Army special operations forces.

At the same time, however, the plan will add about 7,500 troops in other critical missions, including air-defence and counter-drone units and five new task forces around the world with enhanced cyber, intelligence and long-range strike capabilities.

Why US is cutting jobs in its Army?

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said she and General Randy George, the Army chief, worked to thin out the number of places where they had empty or excess slots. ‘We’re moving away from counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. We want to be postured for large-scale combat operations,’ Wormuth told reporters on Tuesday. ‘So we looked at where were there pieces of force structure that were probably more associated with counterinsurgency, for example, that we don’t need anymore.’