[Enchante]

"since nonsense of the "peace dividend" started under Bush I and accelerated under Clinton"

That whole "peace dividend" b.s. has been a nightmare -- sure, some very modest reduction/re-allocations might have been appropriate in the early '90s, but to go down to only 10 Army divisions (not to mention the myriad other cuts that were made) was just foolish. I would think we should be adding a lot more than 30,000 more active duty Army, but I don't claim to be an expert!

[pissant]

Yep. had to have more $$ for midnight basketball, you know.