Going with what you got . . .

You hear, now and then, that the military is having difficulty recruiting enough people, with the implication that Americans of service age don't support the military. You hear, now and then, that our guys don't have enough needed equipment to do the job. And you especially hear now and then that we are relying too much on the Reserves and are extending enlistment terms, with the implication that the military has not planned well for its current needs.

In that connection, this is an interesting insight into how our military has been deployed in the last ten or fifteen years.