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The reserve components, approximately one-third of our military force, have made significant contributions to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What can one conclude about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid forcing Congress to stay up all night debating a cut-and-run Iraq amendment to the defense-authorization bill? Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, it was not. The amendment failed largely along party lines, and Reid plucked the bill from consideration. Game Over.

The White House is having trouble filling its "cyber- security czar" slot? Big surprise.

President Bush's proposed defense budget for next year - an inflation-adjusted $515 billion - stands as the most dollars ponied up for the Pentagon since World War II. At first glance, that seems out of whack. How can it cost almost as much to chase after Osama bin Laden as it did to beat both Hitler and Tojo?

A "rucksack" of health care and retirement benefits that militarypersonnel select themselves and can carry with them would help thePentagon get the military that it needs when it needs it whilehelping to rein in spiraling manpower costs and could also become amodel for the civilian workforce of the future.