Buried Somewhere on Page B14

The Army met its expanded recruiting goals for fiscal 2007, and StrategyPage notes:

The army recruiting effort is unprecedented for wartime. Never in American history has a war this long, been sustained with only volunteers. Party politics and media concentration on that has prevented the story behind this from getting out much.

SP also lists the reasons for the Army’s continued success — and they might not all be what you expect. (Poor, lazy students too stupid to stay out of Iraq not mentioned. John Kerry must be fuming.)