“So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.”
Philip Graham,
Former President & Publisher
The Washington Post
By James Kitfield The outrage and backlash from military retirees resulting from the recent Congressional budget deal that trimmed one percentage-point from the annual cost-of-living increases in military pensions bodes ill for efforts to reform…
In each of the past three post-war drawdowns, the Defense Department has cut the number of troops by roughly a third. The problem this time around is the size of the all-volunteer force remained relatively…