Weekly Standard Calls for Bigger Military

Tom Donnelly (the sharpest mind, in my opinion, in national security and defence analysis at the American Enterprise Institute) and Vance Serchuk, write in A Bigger, Badder, Better Army in the Weekly Standard about the need for a larger U.S. military. The four areas that they identify as requiring reform are:

More ground troops
New bases overseas
New alliances
More money

Without these issues being addressed, they argue, the Bush Doctrine is in danger of failing under the weight of its ambitions without the resources to accomplish them. Donnelly and Serchuk are a welcome antidote to the ideas of those other hawks (both liberal and conservative) who have been advocating troop withdrawl from Iraq recently.