US Army Mulling 90,000 Troop Force Reduction

Sunday, April 06, 2025

Internal discussions are exploring trimming the US Army to between 360,000 and 420,000 troops, down from its current level of roughly 450,000. The potential cuts would mark one of the most dramatic force reductions in years ... More importantly, the US Army has effectively been the quarterback in bolstering NATO's front lines amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's on-going offensive of Ukraine.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 08:32 AM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

While urging allies to spend more on defence the Pentagon is facing 8% cuts, with the US Army looking at getting rid of 90,000 posts t.co/nUNnqo9dcC

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-- Mark Urban (@markurban.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM

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Trump is engineering our loss in the next war.

He wants us to lose the next war.

He expects to gain from our loss in the next war.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-05 12:56 PM

When is Krasnov Fats going to surrender the pentagon to Putin?

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-05 01:20 PM

Given that he wants war with Canada and Denmark, it's better that we do lose.

#3 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-04-06 10:41 AM

I would mark these comments as "funny" in a macabre sort of way.

#4 | Posted by john47 at 2025-04-06 06:03 PM

Pick a couple of allies, bring all the troops home and discharge them. Korea and Germany should about do it.

#5 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-06 06:07 PM

If we can fire only the DEI hires
and keep the white heterosexual males,
the Army will be less than half its size.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-06 06:14 PM

Elon could get rid of 90,000 troops with one email.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-06 06:31 PM

Just crew up 22,500 more M88A2 Hercules Armored Recovery Vehicles with the DEI Hires driving, order them into the swamp, and the problem solves itself.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-06 06:35 PM

Those folks in Greenland are feeling a lot better right about now, as are the Canadians, Russians and Chinese. Residents of Taiwan and Western Europe are concerned. El Rey Dotardo II wants it that way ...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-06 07:49 PM

let me guess-
"according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations."

-more would-be spies selling alleged dod communications for pennies.

#10 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-06 09:15 PM

If Putin has proven anything, its troops are useless.

He took out America with one man.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-06 09:17 PM

The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active duty according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations.

Yet, here it is on the DR and BSKY. Bravo!

#12 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-04-06 09:24 PM

#11: Yup, you said it. The US lost the Cold War to the Kremlin because of one Quisling. Unbelievable. Tom Clancy or John Le Carre couldn't have imagined a novel more frightening than our real nightmare.

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-06 10:09 PM

"more would-be spies selling alleged dod communications for pennies."

Or just check SecDefs clear text gmail account in all likelihood.

#14 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-04-06 10:51 PM

just another sign of how the parties have flipped since the 90's. The GOP is cutting military spending and the Dems are pissed that they cannot keep the nation in a state of forever war. You Dems should be embarrassed - you now represent everything that you used to hate.

#15 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-07 12:42 AM

Well, Trump has been pretty consistent in one way, I have I don't have to wonder if any of his appointments are good for the country...they ain't.
Even if we survive Trump's second term, and he is really not able to run for a third...we will be much, much weaker as a world power, and many of our alliances will be in pieces.

#16 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-04-07 07:15 AM

Dems are pissed that they cannot keep the nation in a state of forever war

#15 | Posted by ScottS

Trump is waging war.

Why don't you use your special charisma and make him stop?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-07 08:19 AM

You Dems should be embarrassed - you now represent everything that you used to hate.

#15 | Posted by ScottS

Jesus. The irony.

From a man and a Party that copies Soviet Russia.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-07 08:21 AM

Whenever the military talks about cutting troop size... they mean they are outsourcing to private contractors who exploit a third world's workforce. That way... the US doesn't have to care for the casualties in perpetuity.

Capitalism is dependent on slave labor.

#19 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-04-07 08:57 AM

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