ARMY RECRUITING, which had been running ahead of goals, has now fallen short two months in a row. Interestingly, this coincides with the new wave of surrender-talk in Congress, which probably does cause volunteers to think twice. Still, I worried about this in our podcast interview with (then) Army Secretary Francis Harvey last year. The Army still thinks it’ll make goal for the year as it started out ahead, but this subject deserves close attention.

UPDATE: Hey, numbers are bad all over. And here’s more background on the Army numbers.