With the Title VI battle unexpectedly heating up in the midst of the emerging gay marriage controversy, I’ve barely had time to keep up with some of my other issues–especially Korea and our too small armed forces. I blogged on Korea yesterday. Now Frederick Kagan has done us all the good turn of frankly stating that our armed forces are too small for the challenges we face. I hope the many hawks who populate the web will take up Kagan’s challenge and confront this issue. I’ve been harping on the point for almost two years. Finally, our occupation of Iraq forces us to face it. Unfortunately, Kagan doesn’t say how we’re supposed to expand our forces. I had a piece out in the April 21 NRODT that detailed a scheme that might allow us to expand our military without a draft and without too much expense. One way or another, as Kagan shows, if we don’t expand our armed forces, we’re in big trouble.