US Troops Speak Out On Exhaustion: “It’s Like [We’re] No More Than Numbers Now”
Peter Beaumont in Baghdad, The UK Observer …The anecdotal evidence on the ground confirms what others – prominent among them General Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State – have been insisting for months now: that the US army is ‘about broken’. Only a third of the regular army’s brigades now qualify as combat-ready….
