"[T]he soldier-to-population ratio during past military occupations has rarely been so low. A recent RAND Corporation study recounts that, in postwar Germany, which the Bush team frequently cites as a model, the United States deployed one soldier for every ten citizens. In Iraq today, coalition forces field one soldier for every 154 citizens" (The New Republic, "More Troops, Not Fewer," <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/06/opinion/main582343.shtml>).
James Dobbins, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane, Seth G. Jones, Rollie Lal, Andrew Rathmell, Rachel Swanger, and Anga Timilsina, "America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq" (2003): <http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1753/index.html>.