ABOUT TIME!
Clinton's halving of the Army (active divisions) went well beyond the planned decrease as a result of the "peace dividend" resulting from the end of the Cold War.
Congress SHOULD act. The Army is not known for crying, but for "can do, SIR" -- and the Army only gets about 1/4 of the DoD budget. AF and Navy have professionalized the lobbying aspect of the military sphere -- while the Army worries more about the troops and the mission and has tended (given the political envrionment, perhaps too much) to be the light-weight in political maneuvering for money . . . as I read it . . .
From what I have seen we need more grunt battalions. In Iraq we are using people untrained in Infantry type stuff to make up for the lack grunts.