You and What Army?
June 15, 2005
Any remaining doubts about whether our current foreign policies are sustainable were demolished by the news that the Army has missed its recruiting goals for the fourth straight month. The Marine Corps has missed its goals for four out of the past five months. The National Guard and Army Reserve have been struggling with retention and recruiting problems for over a year. If the Bush administration and Congress do not fundamentally rethink their attitude toward the use of force abroad, then they will wreck the finest military in the history of mankind.
To read more, visit the American Spectator online.
Christopher Preble is a founding member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, and director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.
Posted by coalition at June 15, 2005 01:23 PM
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