Enlistment

So Kos is writing about the May armed forces recruitment figures, how they're so low that the Pentagon has delayed reporting them. I think what we're seeing is the product of actions taken by an administration very naive about the complexity of our volunteer army. When a huge demand is put on the armed forces, like that of two concurrent, extended conflicts in which an essentially police duty is expected beyond plain combat, there will be consequences. This would surely impact the general interest in serving, especially if the case made for one of said wars is shown to be somewhat misleading. And perhaps there wouldn't be so many problems if the administration had been more responsive to soldiers needs, like body armor and armored humvees. Rumsfeld says we go to war with the army we have; shouldn't we have considered what army we will have, if we were to jump into such a protracted conflict?

And they ran saying Democrats were naive about foreign policy. What a great time to be draft age.