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Unreserved: The misuse of America's reserve forces.
Once upon a time, the reserve forces of the U.S. military were exactly that: reserve forces. Our country held them back like fire extinguishers in the basement, hoping we wouldn't have to use them but knowing where to find them in case of an emergency. Today, however, the reserves are more like an air conditioner, turned on whenever the temperature hits a certain point. And with a proliferation of military missions sending the reserves around the world for every imaginable reason-from keeping the peace in Kosovo to fighting forest fires in Indonesia-it must feel like a hot and humid summer all the time at the Pentagon.
Just a decade ago, the reserve forces-a term ...
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...combat forces. The number of National Guard brigades in Iraq will grow...for the first time in Iraq a National Guard division headquarters will...duty brigades. Overall, National Guard and Reserve forces will make up about 42 percent...
Source: HighBeam Research, Unreserved: The misuse of America's reserve forces.