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Possible Iraq Deployments Would Stretch Reserve Force - washingtonpost.com

Citation added: November 5th, 2006, 2:10 pm
The Army's National Guard and Reserve are bracing for possible new and accelerated call-ups, spurred by high demand for U.S. troops in Iraq, that leaders caution could undermine the citizen-soldier force as it struggles to rebuild.
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VANITY FAIR : FEATURES : Rules of Engagement

Citation added: October 4th, 2006, 1:55 pm
Cut off by language and ignorance from the culture around them, they work in such isolation that the potentially positive effects of their presence usually amount to nil. The potentially negative effects, however, are significant.
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Making a Killing - The Center for Public Integrity

Citation added: October 3rd, 2006, 9:31 am
Amid the military downsizing and increasing number of small conflicts that followed the end of the Cold War, governments turned increasingly to private military companies – a recently coined euphemism for mercenaries
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Revolt of the Generals

Citation added: October 1st, 2006, 6:35 pm
A revolt is brewing among our retired Army and Marine generals. This rebellion comes...because ...the retirees see the US adventure in Mesopotamia as another Vietnam-like, strategically failed war, and they blame the errant, arrogant civilian leadership a
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How Bush wrecked the Army. By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine

Citation added: September 26th, 2006, 5:45 am
This is one reason so many Army officers, active and retired, have been so skeptical of the war all along—not so much because they oppose the war itself, but because they feared it would wreck the Army.
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