On February 13, Andrew Michta, director and senior fellow in the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative, published an op-ed entitled “The United States Needs National Military Service” for Real Clear Defense arguing that, even with the United States’ advantage in air power and precision weapons, it needs to have a pool of readily-available reserves for military service.
Simply put, as we rediscover the old verities of state-on-state competition, including readiness to wage war, we can either pretend that everything is fine and that the system is working as intended, or our political class can face up to the challenge and do the right thing.
