Army under stress.

• Author: Stumm, Robert
• Position: LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Excellent viewpoint by William J. Perry and Michele A. Flournoy, in the May 2006 issue, "U.S. Military; under Strain and at Risk." Expressed is the military's woe in part due to failed public support. At the core may well be the very nature of the Iraq war itself; its lack of moral cause as surfacing reports of military misconduct just begin to reveal. Only the foolish now actually believe the war is being fought to combat terrorism. Monetary incentives to idealistic men and women who are to fight our nation's wars will do little to alter the military's personnel crisis. Moral cause cannot be created by bribe.

As the Iraq war reveals itself to be little more then an aggression of blatant ambitions, another woe debuts. That being the financial drain from defense expenditures caused by sustaining war operations for long periods. Already many naval ship procurements have been...