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With about 140,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq and 20,000 in Afghanistan, the Army--with an overall troop strength that is about half what it was 40 years ago--seems stretched to its limit. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said repeatedly that the military should be made more efficient rather than bigger. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry thinks it isn't large enough and pledges to add 40,000 active troops if elected. The IRR call-up follows a series of so-called stop-loss, stop-move announcements in recent months, which require soldiers who have fulfilled...
...army has spent much of the past several months, in the words of a senior Army officer, "looking under rocks for every spare soldier" to send to Iraq. It took formal action last week to stretch its troop strength as far as possible. According to the so-called stop-loss order, soldiers will be kept in uniform for an extra three months before and after their units' one-year stint in Iraq or Afghanistan. By unilaterally extending their enlistments by as much as 18 months, the policy will force tens of thousands of soldiers to put personal plans on hold...
Your typical retired Marine Corps general is busy these days dodging sand traps on the golf course or second-guessing troop maneuvers in Iraq as a cable-TV talking head. But former Brigadier General Michael Mulqueen, who controlled U.S. reconnaissance plans during the Cuban missile crisis and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, puts in up to 60 hours a week commanding a work force of 90 employees and 8,000 volunteers. His mission: providing meals to 310,000 needy people in and around Chicago each year. Mulqueen, 66, is executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, considered...
...Profits. Iraq contracts have added $5.7 billion to Halliburton's revenues since January 2003, accounting for almost all the company's growth at a time when it was struggling with $4 billion in asbestos claims. The fact is, war is one of Halliburton's specialties. The firm's comprehensive troop-support contract, called LOGCAP, and its southern Iraq oil-field-rehabilitation contract, known as Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO), require Halliburton to supply whatever the military needs, determined by a constantly shifting set of priorities...
...Armada Allied bombers and fighters flew more than 14,000 mission on D-day, pounding German troop concentrations and strong points along the beaches...