Answering the Army’s Three Questions
Answering the Army's Three Questions by Kevin Benson, Real Clear Defense.
In a July 18 blog post, Hoover Institution fellow Kori Schake called out the U.S. Army for failing to make its funding case to the president, Congress, and the American people. “For the Army leadership to get ahead of the train and craft an outcome different from cuts of another 100,000 soldiers,” Schake warned, “it will need to be much more forthcoming and much more analytically persuasive than [Chief of Staff Ray] Odierno has been.”
Schake’s focus was on the size of the active component of the Army and why the number 490,000 is important and relevant to the needs of the nation. Among the more problematic aspects of Schake’s argument was her citation of a state adjutant general’s assertion that the National Guard is more cost effective than the regular Army…
