42 percent of officers say 'military broken'

US military overtaxed by wars: Poll of officers Economic Times, India US military officers are concerned that the country's armed forces have been dangerously overtaxed by the Afghan and Iraq conflicts, according to a new survey by Foreign Policy magazine. Some 60 per cent of more than 3,400 active and retired high-level command officers polled said they believe the US military is weaker than five years ago, compared with only a quarter who said it was stronger and 15 per cent who felt the military was unchanged. Asked if the war in Iraq has broken the military, 42 per cent said yes and 56 per cent said no. But 88 per cent said they agreed that the war has stretched the US military "dangerously thin." And despite speculation that the US would be willing to engage militarily with Iran, 80 per cent said they believed that it was somewhat unreasonable or very unreasonable to expect the US military to wage another war somewhere in the world successfully at this point. (Continued here. The spin in most U.S. media has been quite different, if covered at all. See the original study from Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security. Listen to an interview about the study on Minnesota Public Radio.)