[Steel Wolf]

I've asked many of them, personally- from officers to grunts. Not one of them believes the Army is big enough for the world we have today. This is purely anecdotal, mind you- but it's interesting because these are all of different political and MOS backgrounds. To a man, they say the Army needs more boots- and none of them want to see a draft.

It's clear that we need more troops, because we're in for a long haul. The smaller, more lethal forces are great for a war that no one's going to take us up on, but for the wars we're likely to see, we simply need more boots.

[SE Mom]

Yep- and let's remember that we DID have a larger Army before Clinton cuts- when he arrived the army had 18 divisions, when he left there were 12.

"...In less than three years, deployments increased while manpower decreased from 2.1 million to 1.6 million. That decrease was the foundation upon which stood Al Gore's purported "reinvention" of government. Of the 305,000 employees removed from the federal payroll, 286,000 (or 90%) were military cuts...."
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