Army recruiting is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Army,

We call this process the Death Spiral.

I was recruiting my No. 1 prospect to come back. That's the approach that I took. We just had to present our side.

The future looks even grimmer. Recruiting is going to get harder and harder,

Decisions made years earlier made going to war in any significant way impossible without Guard and Reserve participation. But I can't imagine anyone postulated the situation we face today: We don't seem very anxious to bring back the draft and we can't get enough volunteers for a war that is not universally popular,

The war we have now is not the war we started off with. It's much more serious.