The Army's top brass have been privately telling folks around D.C. that they could use another 60-80,000 troops. Last week, Senator McCain argued that our ground forces are "overstretched at a time of widespread and very serious challenges" and that we need to "increase substantially the troop strength of the Army and Marine Corps by at least 100,000." Even Sen. Hillary Clinton has joined the "more troops" chorus. Along with Senators Lieberman, Nelson (NE), and Reed, she has co-sponsored "The United States Army Relief Act," which calls for an increase in end strength of 20,000 "per year over the next four years, giving the Army the breathing room to reduce the overburden on our active duty troops as well as our Guard and Reserve and rebuild our capacity to respond to future threats." Of course, such increases should have been undertaken years ago.