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FYI, already posted under a similar title with 146 replies:

My response on that thread:

So...call in the Marines, LOL! I get so sick of this gloom and doom "Army did not meet it's recruiting goals" crap. They exceeded retention goals (107%) and in fiscal 2005, fell only 8 percent short of the annual recruiting goal. The Navy, the Marine Corps and the Air Force all exceeded their goals.

Sorry, I searched News/Activism under "Army" and didn't come up with anything.

"The Krepinevich assessment is the latest in the debate over whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have worn out the Army, how the strains can be eased and whether the U.S. military is too burdened to defeat other threats."

This guy is such a hand-wringer. Want to fix the Army? Quit your bitching! Get the military focus back on the business of war, rather than making it a labratory for political correctness. Get rid of women in combat brigades, make the physical training what it used to be (instead of the mixed-gender crap it is now), and pass legislation which forbids any politician from interfering with combat operations (i.e. POW internment). A bonus would be booting the press corps out of the front lines as well.

I can't help wondering how the war on terror would be turning out, were Ronald Reagan in charge.

The issue, as always, is that Bill Clinton cut the army from 18 divisions down to 10 divisions. The Army IS the "hold the ground" service, so its numbers must be more than the other services.

Unfortunately for the nation, once they cut that 1/3+ from the defense budget (remember the so-called 'peace dividend'), they proceede to spend it in other areas so that it could never be easily recaptured by DoD.

Now we have Rumsfeld trying to turn 10 divisions and a training/staffing base into additional brigades from the same numbers. This will NOT change the number of deployments these guys would see. Normally, many of them would see a field assignment and then follow that with some kind of training assignment. Since the training assignments are going away, we're simply robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The answer is to cut the budget in other areas, and restore that money to DoD and increase the number of divisions back up to 18....the number LONG RECOGNIZED as necessary for fighting 2 full scale wars simultaneously (which is now obvious.)