Today’s Washington Times reports:

The Washington Post has also reported on this new directive. While many may agree on this post-conflict focus (as I do), there’s quite a divide — Powell, Shinseki, Rumsfeld, etc. — on just how big the deployed force should be to accomplish the mission (and having traveled throughout Kosovo there other issues to be sorted out related to the role of a stability force once on the ground). Whether one agrees or disagrees with its conclusions, this Rand study on the “Arithmetic of Stability Operations” is a good place to start the debate that will surely be part of the 2008 presidential campaign.