Glory Days

"Former secretary of state James Baker and his independent commission are searching for a new strategy for Iraq, and legislators of both parties will soon begin looking for a compromise answer to the same knotty problem. But it’s past time to start repairing the damage the Bush administration’s way of war has done to our Army and our Marine Corps.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld hasn’t cleaned out his desk yet, and the colonels and generals are still mentally dancing in a joyous conga line through the corridors of the Pentagon’s E-Ring, but there’s work to be done, and none of it is more important than fixing what four years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan has broken.

The Senate has yet to confirm Robert Gates to replace Rumsfeld, but whatever his faults–and there are more than a few –he’s likely to earn swift bipartisan approval, if only because Rumsfeld won’t leave until he’s on deck."
Michael Yon

I only have one thing I want to quote from this article:

the Army is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying find enough recruits to keep the all-volunteer Army afloat.