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An All-Volunteer Military?

Brian Doherty | 8.18.2004 8:14 AM

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An anonymous soldier sues over the army's "stop-loss" policy, which keeps soldiers in the military longer than the tours of duty they thought they'd signed up for. Our own Tim Cavanaugh discussed the problems with this back in December.

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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