Our Leaders' Failure In Making Our Nation Safer

Of course, this could just be (could be??) Pentagon posturing for more money but there's certainly more than, like, a kernel of truth to it.

A classified Pentagon assessment concludes that long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats, have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis, The Associated Press has learned.

Despite security gains in Iraq, there is still a "significant" risk that the strained U.S. military cannot quickly and fully respond to another outbreak elsewhere in the world, according to the report.

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