"Retention Deficit: Stop-loss in a Volunteer State" by Tim Cavanaugh

On 22 Dec 2003, Tim Cavanaugh wrote:

"When a free nation can't maintain its foreign adventures with willing volunteers, the rational solution should be to cut down on the adventures, not to fudge the definition of 'willing.' Stop-loss may not be the worst thing the government is doing to America's troops, but anybody who is seriously trying to estimate the costs of the war in Iraq should be paying close attention to it."

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