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  • recruitment goals

    Fishy or not the Army is going to have a tougher time recruiting next year. The recovery is just beginning and no one in their right mind wants to go to Afghanistan.
    Posted to War Stories by david wayne osedach on October 16, 2009

  • Facile

    Well, that's a very good piece, ending with a facile, throw-away parenthetical lacking in any meaningful analysis. It rather undercuts and distracts from an otherwise highly informative, and accurate, piece. Mr. Kaplan is probably correct insofar as the F-22 represents an over-priced weapon system of which we do not need any more. His analysis ...
    Posted to War Stories by JJ.JJ on March 20, 2009

  • A Fork in the Road

    I absolutely loved this article! I happened to stumble upon it while searching for information on moving to Amsterdam. Your writing style is amazing. Surprisingly my major concern with living in Amsterdam is the other Americans. I am an American, but I know how we must act over there in the land where weed is legal. Do they discriminate against us ...
    Posted to Well-Traveled by Koniferus on April 14, 2008

  • Cannot Fix U.S. Military Without Fixing U.S. Society and Eco

    I wonder what the ''military brat'' elected U.S. Senator from Virginia, a Democrat named James or Jim, thinks about your comprehensive and exhaustive prescription for improvements to our U.S. Military. Only a military officer who has been elected to public office, it seems, is entitled to offer an opinion, since remember: our national military ...
    Posted to Fixing It by MichaelBernard1 on March 31, 2008

  • As a US Navy Recruiter.....

    I think we all should just as concerned with the Army lowering their moral standards as much as their aptitude standards. To my understanding a recruit can enter the Army with more than one convicted felony and/or sex offense. Not only will you have a dumber Army, but you will have a greater chance of having a more corrupt Army as well. Another ...
    Posted to War Stories by smileychic74 on February 1, 2008

  • Re: Fred Kaplan's Conventional Thinking

    TJA:My friend, you are the one who needs to educate yourself. Iran sits on the Straight of Hormuz which is the transit point for the majority of the world's oil. A few speedboats and shore based silk worm missles are all it would take to close this critical path to all oil traffic. THAT is what poses a threat to the US and the world. ...
    Posted to War Stories by White Camry on January 11, 2008