When inflation is factored in, the Army has lost $46 billion in buying power since fiscal year (FY) 2019, and if we assume an inflation factor of 5 percent from 2022 to 2023 (which is likely conservative), the Administration’s $177.5 billion FY 2023 budget request for the Army represents a loss of more than $6 billion just from its FY 2022 enacted budget.
The first, and arguably most important is to “put the Army on a sustainable strategic path amidst this uncertainty.” Wormuth acknowledged that the Army is “facing increased fiscal pressures” And while the objective of “a sustainable strategic path” is noble and well-founded, it is not at all clear how the Army will be able to find such a path given its significant year-over-year losses in buying power. In her initial message to the Army, Secretary Wormuth set out six objectives. Autonomy is changing the character of warfare, and the Army has developed some bold ideas about how to take advantage of this technology. Information-age warfare requires new levels of speed and precision in Army sensor-to-shooter chains. In some cases, advances in firepower like ballistic missiles, electronic warfare, and loitering munitions delivered by drones fielded by adversaries like China have outpaced the U.S. The Army, like the other military services, finds itself under extraordinary operational and financial pressure. That is a testament to years spent investing in our alliances and partnerships, and to maintaining strong relationships that enabled the Army the access and presence needed to bolster NATO deterrence. It took less than one week after receiving deployment orders for an armored brigade to deploy from Savannah, Georgia and be on the ground in Germany starting live-fire exercises with tanks drawn from in Europe. McConville testified that: Never before has the U.S.
On May 12, 2022, speaking of the deployments to Europe, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Army Chief of Staff General James C. Since Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Army has deployed two Corps, two Division Headquarters, six Brigade Combat Teams, and two Combat Aviation Brigades to Europe. 1 Most notably it has deployed significant forces to NATO countries as a deterrent to further aggression by Russia. From May 2021 to April 2022, the Army provided 120,000 soldiers to the Joint Force in 140 different countries. The Army is engaged throughout the world in protecting and advancing U.S. Although it is capable of all types of operations across the range of military operations and support to civil authorities, its chief value to the nation is its ability to defeat and destroy enemy land forces in battle. Army is America’s primary agent for the conduct of land warfare.
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