Top service officials last month presented their plans for a division of labor between the active Army and its reserves in a closed-door session, arguing, in essence, that high-intensity combat is best left to full-time soldiers. The characterization appears in the written statement of Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno for a May 19 hearing of the congressionally mandated National Commission on the Future of the U.S. Army. The panel recently published the joint testimony filed...
