Our military is too small. Don’t want a draft? Alright, then we’re going to have to pay (big time) for a larger all volunteer army. I’ve been saying this for some time, but reality is about to concentrate our minds. Whether it will take 60,000 troops to occupy Iraq or 200,000 (estimates vary), our current all volunteer military will be severely strained after the war.
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Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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