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If troops want more time at home, Kagan says, there is an easy way to achieve that: "win the war we're fighting."
At the same time, they say this will be a “generational war” that will go on for decades.
If troops can’t come home until they “win” and we know they won’t “win” for many, many years, what’s that going to do to the morale of the troops?
How are we going to get people to join the military if they are confronted with these two seemingly contradictory ideas? Why would they join the military if they know that their needs (to have a family or any sort of life outside of a “permanent war”) are dismissed so cavalierly by “military expert” Fred Kagan.
Some expert.
