Loren Thompson Quotes on War & Peace (6 Quotes)

They're largely meeting their quotas in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war, They're barely pulling in a handful of people in a country of 300 million. What these numbers show is the average recruiter is bringing in one recruit a month. That's not a great performance.

This is really about a war plan that went wrong based on a series of bad decisions that reflected really abysmal intelligence.

The entire Marine force was designed around the concept of amphibious warfare, which is a good deal different from the kind of conflict they're fighting in Iraq today, hundreds of miles from the sea. The Marines are a light force they kick in the door but they are not supposed to occupy all the rooms.

The Army is doing most of the fighting in a very unpopular war. That means no amount of money is going to make recruiting an easy job.

During the Cold War, the Guard was an afterthought. There were sound reasons then why the Guard was less equipped than the active force. But in a post 9-11 world, that model no longer works.

As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force.