[SLB]

FYI

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for the article and ping...a very good read with minimal "woe is me". Along with others on this thread, I thought the "peace dividend" was just so much baloney. The world is/was still a dangerous place and the military is the only force immediately available to stand in that breach. Using that drawdown to free funds to pay off political constituencies with social services goodies was an absolutely unprincipled, unpatriotic, and wrong-headed boondoggle.