Note: This and other historical charts begin with the year 1999 because it is before the 9/11 buildup but after completion of the post-Cold War reductions. To its credit, though, the Army did not reduce its standards but rather accepted a smaller size. Thus, the Army in the 2020s will be at about the level that it was before the post-9/11 expansion. In FY 2020 the total Army will have an end strength of 1,005,500 and by FY 2024 will grow to only 1,016,500. However, recruiting and retention problems have forced both the active and reserve components to scale back their plans. We’ve done the analysis, and we think we need to be bigger.” 1 Army officials had implied a regular force of 500,000 to 510,000. As recently as July 2017, General Milley said: “ased on the tasks that are required, I believe that we need a larger Army. FY 2019 plans called for expansion to 1,040,000 by FY 2023, and Army officials had talked about much higher levels. The Army had fought hard against plans in the Obama administration to drop to 980,000 soldiers, regular and reserve, or lower. Source: BCT data in Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), Defense Budget Overview: Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request, Appendix A, Table A-4, A3 End Strength data in Army FY2020 Budget Overview, 6.Īrmy plans for force expansion collapsed this year. Table 2: Army End Strength – National Guard and Reserve Source: BCT data in Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), Defense Budget Overview: Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, March 2019), Appendix A, Table A-4, A-2, defbudget/fy2020/fy2020_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf End Strength data in Department of Defense, Army FY2020 Budget Overview (Washington, DC: March 2019), 6, and%20Highlights/Army%20FY%202020%20Budget%20Overview.pdf. Table 1: Army End Strength – Regular and Civilians Army modernization is a mix of good and bad news: the Army increased production of proven systems and shifted $31 billion over the five-year (“FYDP”) into higher-priority modernization programs but is still several years away from having a new generation of systems in production.There is now less tension between regular Army and its reserve components as a result of closer consultations, higher overall budgets, and shared recruitment challenges.New kinds of units, like multidomain brigades, remain mostly conceptual. The Army is restructuring to better meet the demands of great power conflict, converting two Infantry Brigade Combat Teams into Armored Brigade Combat Teams and adding some small cyber units.The reserve components essentially hold steady in FY 2020. The regular force increases from 478,000 soldiers in FY 2019 to 480,000 in FY 2020 instead of reaching the planned 492,000. The Army has had difficulty in growing the force even modestly because of recruiting challenges.With modernization, the Army has increased production of proven systems and shifted billions into development of high priority programs to prepare the Army for great power conflict. Army’s effort to grow its force structure has been stymied by recruitment challenges, making it difficult to expand for day-to-day operations, creation of new capabilities, and wartime surge. Military Forces in FY2020: The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy Responding to Egregious Human Rights Abuses.Building Sustainable and Inclusive Democracy.Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations.Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts.Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation. Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation.Intelligence, Surveillance, and Privacy.
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