Broken Army

All this chatter about the army being broken. It's starting to sound like this "volunteer army" thing isn't really going to work to me. Atleast not at these levels. It's also starting to sound like we're in real trouble. Looks like congress really blew it on the size army America really does need. They got carried away with the "Peace Dividend". Another failure of congress to adequately Analyze and equip our military. What will we do if we have to field a million soldiers in a confrontation with say China? In today's environment I can't see that happening.

I was listening to an interviews on the radio with people who were at the peace rally yesterday. One interviewee said that she heard about a woman that was severely traumatized at seeing a police officer spray pepper-spray in someones face. That the poor woman reported that she would have a very long recovery from PTSD, of all things. If that's to much for the populace to handle, we're in real trouble. We won't be able to stand-up to anyone.

The WWII generation really is turning out to be the greatest generation. Our soldiers managed to come back home, after years of horrific combat, ignore PTSD and everything else, and still build the country into what it is today. It seems like they performed a heroic feat. Certainly better than our generation or the next, seem to be willing to do.

What is America going to do?