I knew we had a problem in 2006. That was the year I took a battalion through the mobilization process on the way to war in Iraq. The 2-135th Aviation Battalion, with our six hundred citizen-soldiers, ...
World War II was the last time the United States fully mobilized for war. It is unlikely that the U.S. Army could repeat that feat today. That’s why Brig. Gen. Christopher Petty’s article on the topic ...