Donald Trump’s Best Military Weapon: A Bigger U.S. Army (From The National Interest)

Today, the U.S. military is overextended, underfunded and in danger of being outmatched by rivals such as Russia and China. Unless the new President takes seriously his commitment to make the U.S. military so powerful nobody “will mess with us,” he may find himself facing a worst-case scenario, without leverage and unable to fight back. Although President-elect Donald Trump has spoken about strengthening all branches of the military, he needs to devote special attention to the U.S. Army. I have written more about President-elect Trump and the U.S. Army here.