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Army Woes

Posted on: Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 in: Civil-Military, Military Policy, Strategy

Major General Scales’ lament in “The Military Budget Pie” (Washington Times, January 10, 2007) is eccentric, if not discouragingly familiar.

Scales begins with a melancholic elegy; his beloved Army breaks whenever it is sent to war. I disagree, but were this true I would be hard-pressed to advocate, as does Scales, “a huge infusion of [...]