Today’s Troops Fear A New War Is Coming Soon

Leo Shane III, Military Times: Why today’s troops fear a new war is coming soon

WASHINGTON — Nearly half of all current military troops believe the United States will be drawn into a major war soon, a jarring rise in anxiety among service members worried about global instability in general and Russia and China in particular, according to a new Military Times poll of active-duty troops.

About 46 percent of troops who responded to the anonymous survey of currently serving Military Times readers said they believe the U.S. will be drawn into a new war within the next year. That’s a jarring increase from only about 5 percent who said the same thing in a similar poll conducted in September 2017.

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WNU Editor: When you have military leaders like Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller earlier this year telling Marines that he thought there was a “big-ass fight” on the horizon, or U.S. Defense Secretary wanting military readiness to be massively increased in one year, it is going to be a natural that soldiers are going to be concerned. But when you look at the threats in the world today (versus 2017), I do not see any significant changes with the exception of two. The threat of a Korean war has decreased, and China is being more assertive in the South China Sea.