| The 2008 modernisation strategy, by Lieut Gen Stephen Speakes, deputy Army chief of staff, contains the first explicit and official acknowledgement that the US military is dangerously overstretched internationally. "The army is engaged in the third-longest war in our nation's history and...the Global War on Terrorism has caused the army to become out of balance with the demand for forces exceeding the sustainable supply." |
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