An Army in Transition Awaits West Point Cadets as Wars End, Military Budgets Shrink
11.29.2013 at 06:42am
An Army in Transition Awaits West Point Cadets as Wars End, Military Budgets Shrink by Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post.
They were fourth- and fifth-graders when terror struck on Sept. 11, 2001, and they have only hazy recollections of the day that galvanized the young men and women who filled these halls in the decade that followed.
Now, the seniors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are poised to become the first in a generation to enter a force preparing not to fight insurgents in Iraq or Afghanistan but to confront shrinking budgets and a postwar identity crisis. In doing so, they will be taking the helm of Army units made up of combat-seasoned veterans…
