Thanks for this piece. Curious though - if the enlisted army shrinks, won't that give another ammo to our "We good. They bad" crowd? They will use it to get even more contracted / mercenary soldiers - and ask for even bigger budget for that?
Huh .. whatever happened to American government training, bankrolling and weaponizing Afghan fighters against Russia? It could have very well be done via Pakistan -- but it is very very amateurish to think that Pakistan did it all by themselves