摘要：What could not be carried out against the U.S. Army on the desert plains of Iraq or the snowy mountaintops of Afghanistan in 12 years of war is being accomplished now. Saddam Hu ssein's Rep ublic an Guard could not do it. The Tali ban and al Qaeda could not do i t. Sunni insur- gents and radical Shia clerics tried and failed. What no foreign enemy could force on the battlefield is being done by our own national politics: degrading the Army's combat might. That is being done by strangling the Army's appro- priations with sequestration, aided by the wholesale bud- get chaos that has dogged defense funding for years.
