Back in the United States, a new Pentagon study says US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has drastically overstretched the Army to the point it has become a “thin Green line.” The report says the Army is “in a race against time” to avert “a catastrophic decline.” Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report, told the Associated Press: “You really begin to wonder just how much stress and strain there is on the Army, how much longer it can continue.”