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is responsible for providing
troops to war commanders,
said it would be “a very
extreme characterization”
to call the Army broken.
He said his organization
has been able to fulfill every
request for troops that it
has received from field
commanders.
The Krepinevich
assessment is the latest in
the debate over whether the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
have worn out the Army,
how the strains can be
eased and whether the U.S.
military is too burdened to
defeat other threats.
Rep. John Murtha, the
Pennsylvania Democrat and
Vietnam veteran, created
a political storm last fall
when he called for an early
exit from Iraq, arguing that
the Army was “broken,
worn out” and fueling the
insurgency by its mere
presence. Administration
officials have hotly contested
that view.'
George Joulwan, a retired
four-star Army general and
former NATO commander,
agrees the Army is stretched
thin.
“Whether they’re broken
or not, I think I would say
if we don’t change the way
we’re doing business, they’re
in danger of being fractured
and broken, and I would
agree with that,” Joulwan
told CNN last month.
Krepinevich did not
conclude that U.S. forces
should quit Iraq now, but
said it may be possible to
reduce troop levels below
100.000 by the end of the
year. There now are about
136,000, Pentagon officials
said Tuesday.
For an Army of about
500.000 soldiers — not
counting the thousands of
National Guard and Reserve
soldiers now on active
duty — the commitment
of 100,000 or so to Iraq
might not seem an excessive
burden. But because the
war has lasted longer than
expected, the Army has had
to regularly rotate fresh
units in while maintaining
its normal training efforts
and reorganizing the force
from top to bottom.
Krepinevich’s analysis,
while consistent with the
conclusions of some outside
the Bush administration,
is in stark contrast with
the public statements of
Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld and senior
Army officials.
Army Secretary Francis
Harvey, for example, opened
a Pentagon news conference
last week by denying the
Army was in trouble.
“Today’s Army is the most
capable, best-trained,
best-equipped and most
experienced force our nation
has fielded in well over a
decade,” he said, adding that
recruiting has picked up.
Rumsfeld has argued that
the experience of fighting
in Iraq and Afghanistan has
made the Army stronger,
not weaker.
“The Army is probably
as strong and capable as
it ever has been in the
history of this country,”
he said in an appearance at
the Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International
Studies in Washington on
Dec. 5. “They are more
experienced, more capable,
better equipped than ever
before.”
Krepinevich said in
the interview that he
understands why Pentagon
officials do not state publicly
that they are being forced
to reduce troop levels in
Iraq because of stress on
the Army. “That gives too
much encouragement to the
enemy,” he said, even if a
number of signs, such as a
recruiting slump, point in
that direction.
isxepinevich is executive
director of the Center for
Strategic and Budgetary
Assessments, a nonprofit
policy research institute.
He said he concluded that
even Army leaders are not
sure how much longer they
can keep up the unusually
high pace of combat tours
in Iraq before they trigger
an institutional crisis.
Some major Army divisions
are serving their second
yearlong tours in Iraq, and
some smaller units have
served three times.
Michael O’Hanlon, a
military expert at the private
Brookings Institution, said in
a recent interview that “it’s a
judgment call” whether the
risk of breaking the Army
is great enough to warrant
expanding its size.
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