Gates urges military to focus on Iraq, not future wars
AFP, May, 2008
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) — The US military must concentrate on the war in Iraq despite concerns about the stress on the force and its readiness for future wars, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
"Morale is high, as is recruiting and retention -- particularly among units either in or just returning from Iraq and Afghanistan," Gates said in a speech here to the conservative Heritage Foundation.
As for the possibility of stretched US forces being confronted with a war elsewhere, Gates said: "There is a risk, but it is a prudent and manageable one."
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Gates' comments come as high-ranking military officers and members of Congress have openly-expressed alarm over the repeated deployments of US ground forces, as well growing US vulnerability in the event of a new conflict.
"I have noticed too much of a tendency towards what might be called 'next-war-itis' -- the propensity of much of ...
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