To do so, however, he will have to address it squarely, as candidate Reagan did twenty years ago -- namely, by promising not just to fiddle at the margins (a pay raise here, a reenlistment bonus there) but to restore the U.S. military to fighting trim by allocating to it, on a sustained basis, the sorts of resources that are clearly required to recapitalize as well as to maintain the force.
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