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Another portent of draft revival.(Insider Report)
"America's all-volunteer military simply cannot deploy and sustain enough troops to succeed in places like Iraq while still deterring threats elsewhere in the world," write Captain Philip Carter, U.S. Army (Ret.), and Paul Grastris in "The Case for the Draft" in the March 2005 Washington Monthly. "America has a choice. It can be the world's superpower, or it can maintain the current all-volunteer military, but it probably can't do both."
Refusing to consider the missing third alternative--a return to our status as a free and independent constitutional republic--the authors examine, and dismiss, five scenarios for military reform: international burden-sharing with allies; privatizing peacekeeping and other missions via contractors; radically transforming the military to emphasize speed, mobility, and hi-tech superiority; upsizing the volunteer military through increased enlistment and retention incentives; and using similar incentives to expand the reserves.
"That leaves one option left for providing the military with sufficient numbers of ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Charles Trueheart June 9, 1988 700+ words
...Charlie Peters kind of guy-and a Washington Monthly subscriber to boot. "I tried to...Peters is sublimely content with The Washington Monthly's 30,000 subscribers and marginal...Corps Evaluation Division begat The Washington Monthly, then what Peters wishes is for...
- In its New College Rankings, Washington Monthly Magazine Asks 'What Do...
- Newspaper article from: Science Letter September 15, 2009 700+ words
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- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 3, 2009 700+ words
...national universities in the 2009 Washington Monthly Magazine College Rankings. Washington Monthly is an independent monthly magazine...from a progressive perspective. The Washington Monthly based its national college rankings...