[lbo-talk] Re: Draft in 2005?

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- 
bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/08/MNGJ772EEN1.DTL
Third of U.S. troops to leave Korea by end of '05 Move reflects Pentagon 
policy of more mobile forces
> ...The withdrawal underscores a broader move by the Pentagon to transform 
> troops stationed at traditional, fixed bases into more mobile forces for 
> rapid global deployments. Military officials also have proposed pulling 
> two armored Army divisions out of Germany and repositioning some fighter 
> aircraft and Navy command staff in Europe to make it easier to deploy 
> forces to the Middle East, Central Asia and other potential hot spots.

In the case of South Korea, the planned move would mark the largest U.S. 
troop withdrawal from the peninsula since the Korean War, while shifting a 
greater burden of defense to the South Koreans themselves. A U.S. 
delegation, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Lawless, informed 
the South Koreans Sunday night of the Pentagon's intention to withdraw the 
troops, South Korean officials said...

  Lawless, what a great name for a USG official...

-- 
Michael Pugliese