George W. Bush’s 2000 election campaign promise to the military was “help is on the way.” But a prickly White House-Pentagon relationship and a war in which the civilian leadership too often has meddled with war-fighting opera¬tions has injured the promise. For the 44th president, there is the challenge of restoring the civil-military balance, invigorating a force brought perilously close to exhaustion, and almost certainly crafting an Iraq exit strategy.

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