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Salute and Disobey?
Richard B. Myers and Richard H. Kohn, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Lawrence J. Korb, and Michael C. Desch
September/October 2007
Summary: Did the Bush administration disregard military expertise before the Iraq war? Should military leaders have done more to protest in response?
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Jets or GIs? How Best to Address the Military's Manpower Shortage
Lawrence J. Korb, Peter Ogden, and Frederick W. Kagan
July/August 2006
Summary: The U.S. military needs more manpower, badly. And this means reordering budgets, putting troops over technology. Or does it?
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Fixing the Mix: How to Update the Army's Reserves
Lawrence J. Korb
March/April 2004
Summary: The battlefield victory in Iraq obscured what the occupation has since made clear: the U.S. military's personnel system--especially the size of its active-duty Army and the number of crucial units kept in the reserves--desperately needs updating.
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Our Overstuffed Armed Forces: Reasons to Cut More
Lawrence J. Korb
November/December 1995
Summary: President Clinton and the Republican Congress do not agree on much, but both want to give the Pentagon more than it dared hope for in the post--Cold War era: some $260 billion a year. The Joint Chiefs say the United States should be ready to fight two wars at once, but would this really take as many troops as they claim, and is it even reasonable to plan for it? Look around at what allies and enemies are spending. Election time, however, is almost here, and politics in the defense debate has seldom run higher. What makes no strategic sense is good on the hustings.
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