A Hollow Army

Writing for Politico Magazine, Army Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret.) argues for a leaner, meaner Army with less overhead, more teeth and less tail. He is plugging a proposal he's made before in two books cited in the article; I find his ideas interesting.

Macgregor's description of the inability of today's Army to respond to the threat in Ukraine is pathetic:

How could an Army of 550,000 with 32,000 troops in Afghanistan’s forward operating bases fail to provide more than two combat-ready brigades, roughly 8,000 men under arms, to deploy and fight?

He likens our present situation to that at the beginning of the Korean War.