More than 15,000 have been wounded in action. Bob Herbert writes that the problems of the military go far beyond the casualty figures coming out of the war zone. The Army, for example, has been stretched so taut since the September 11 attacks, especially by the fiasco in Iraq, that it's become like a rubber band that may snap at any moment.

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