Brilliant post and it should be echoed over an over. Drooping 400K Soldiers is key to everything.It should never be forgotten and who did it.
I can't forget...I lived through it. I remember when there was a rash of suicides in the 10th Mountain Div because they were on such a heavy deployment schedule.
When the 1st Armored Div was in a non deployable status because of shrofalls in readiness and manning.
And I remember Algore GLOATING in a stump speech about how his re-inventing government plan cut "400 thousand jobs from the Federal payroll" and if he was elected President "not one single job" would be added.
And people that weren't cognizent of politics then or the military then need to know these things before they start hearing the reckless ranting soundbites being played by the DBM trying to lay all of this at the Presidents doorstep.