Gates Calls for Troop Increase

A long over due move by the Administration, from NewsMax:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on Thursday for a permanent boost in the size of the Army and Marine Corps, the military branches most strained by Iraq, at a likely cost of $15 billion a year.
Gates recommended that President George W. Bush add 92,000 troops to the two services over five years, bringing the Army to 547,000 soldiers and the Marine Corps to 202,000 service members...

Gates proposed adding 65,000 troops to the Army and 27,000 to the Marine Corps, to be implemented in two steps.

This could be paid for not by raising taxes or the deficit, but from cutting the overly large federal budget. A very hard but not impossible task.