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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

U.S. military shortages

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Since WW II it has been U.S. policy to maintain a military capable of fighting two wars at the same time. While we fought in Korea and fought the war in Vietnam we also had forces prepared to defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression. Since the end of major U.S. combat involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan the question is whether the weakened military with its tired equipment and weapons has recovered sufficiently to return to that two-front policy.

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