by Mohamed Younis


Story Highlights

  • Public confidence in the U.S. military continues to decline
  • Drops seen across party groups, but Republicans remain most confident
  • Independents least likely to express confidence this year

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans are now less likely to express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. military, with a noticeable decline that has persisted for the past five years. The latest numbers are from a June 1-22 Gallup poll that also captured record lows in public confidence in several public institutions.

  • HubertManne
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    61 year ago

    why is the start date when we got rid of the draft? would be much more interesting to see before that.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      I believe 1975 was when they started asking the question regularly. That’s normally how Gallup does their historical data in these articles.

      • HubertManne
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        11 year ago

        I was thinking maybe they did not have data before. Just to bad we don’t have it.

    • @YoBuckStopsHere
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      01 year ago

      Hopefully never. What we want is a draft that includes males and females. I can see a future where we use the draft for humanitarian reasons with the environmental and climate crisis. That means more college educated middle to upper class draftees, those with experience. Sorry Millennials and Zoomers.