'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America

Looming defense budget cuts not only threaten new weapons, ships and planes, but also endanger the all-volunteer force itself.

The United States is teetering on the precipice of disaster. It not only confronts an increasingly dangerous world, it is engaged in defense budget cuts that, predictably, will make the world more so. Worse yet, legislators are actively contemplating steps that would not just hollow out our military but eviscerate it - an irresistible invitation to aggression by freedom's foes.