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Christman, Shalikashvili and other military experts proposed some reasonable parameters for a new force. First, it would have to augment the current troop levels. The purpose would be to free up units like the 101st Airborne, now nation building in northern Iraq, for combat. "We don't have enough troops to do what needs to be done now," Shalikashvili told me. Second, these would have to be real soldiers, mentally tough, physically fit and combat ready. "Any peaceful checkpoint can become a battlefield in a heartbeat," said retired Major General Bill Nash, who commanded U.S. troops in Bosnia. There...
...Christman, Shalikashvili and other military experts proposed some reasonable parameters for a new force. First, it would have to augment the current troop levels. The purpose would be to free up units like the 101st Airborne, now nation building in northern Iraq, for combat. "We don't have enough troops to do what needs to be done now," Shalikashvili told me. Second, these would have to be real soldiers, mentally tough, physically fit and combat ready. "Any peaceful checkpoint can become a battlefield in a heartbeat," said retired Major General Bill Nash, who commanded U.S. troops in Bosnia. There...
...draft in an election year (besides, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last year he was opposed to a new draft), the Pentagon’s actions reflect the glaring urgency of the situation in Iraq. As the violence intensifies, there has been increased attention to the fact that troop levels in Iraq are grossly inadequate. Late last week, the Pentagon announced its new troop rotation plan, which calls for 50,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq in the next several months, bringing the total level to 180,000. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has called for an additional...
...thing for a girl to get excited and sell it the way she once sold Girl Scout cookies, but to have to do it every month is a different proposition entirely," says Smith Barney analyst Wendy Nicholson. But as any savvy Mark rep knows, with Girl Scouts, the troop benefits. With Mark, the money you earn is all yours...
...went to dinner with an aquaintance who is an Eagle Scout. I was wearing an old t-shirt I had picked up at a (admittedly trendy) consignment shop in South Philly. It has a picture of the White House and underneath it reads: “Girl Scout Troop #114.” I was never a Girl Scout, but when I found the shirt in the store bin my mind immediately began racing with ironic possibilities: “The girl scout idea belies my age... The White House implies a diabolical connection to this independent organization...