
Plans to reduce the size of the Army by 40,000 troops within two years likely will leave the service unable to fight a major conflict while fulfilling its current global commitments, the National Commission on the Future of the Army heard Aug. 18.“The current trend in force planning will leave us with an Army too small to credibly sustain U.S. commitments and interests,” Timothy Bonds, vice president for the Rand Corp.’s Army Research Division, told the commission during a public…