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Here’s the subhead of this month’s Washington Monthly cover story, “The Case for The Draft”:
America can remain the world’s superpower. Or it can maintain its current all-volunteer military. It can’t do both.
And here’s the last paragraph of the first section of that same piece, the “nut” graph:
America has a choice. It can be the world’s superpower, or it can maintain the current all-volunteer military, but it probably can’t do both. [Italics ours.]
Somewhere between subhead and nut graph, it seems, the Monthly became a bit less self-assured.
–Brian Montopoli
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