The down sizing of the military throughout the Klinton years of the 90's is coming home to roost. You can cut quickly, but you cannot redo, reorder, refit, make up what is lost over a series of years in just two to four years under Bush and since 9-1-1 when our military started going to battle frequently. It has taken time to get the right stuff back into the field. The system is still behind the demand.
" The system is still behind the demand."...The system is always behind, built in paper shufflers by the thousands.