[Mb-civic] Military's Self-Inflicted Wound

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Military's Self-Inflicted Wound 
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The ban on gays drains crucial skills in wartime.

By Aaron Belkin
Aaron Belkin is the director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, at UC Santa Barbara.

January 19 2005

As the Pentagon begins its open-ended review of U.S. strategy in Iraq, military leaders face withering attacks for having insufficient boots on the ground, for making National Guard troops into regular soldiers and for involuntary recalls of thousands of former service members who returned to civilian life long ago, most believing they would never again wear a uniform. 

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