Generally, reservists have been used as backfill to complement the regular forces, not replace them.
Its plan for a sustainable and flexible force relies upon a large expansion of the reservists.
"If the only way to create a Greater Serbia is by crime, then let that Serbia disappear," said the 84-year-old Patriarch Pavle in a remarkable statement from the institution whose ancient strongholds were supposedly at stake in the Kosovo war.On an earthly plane, football fans in Belgrade have been jeering the president, while reservists in southern Serbia have blocked roads demanding back pay.
About 1,950 Florida Guard and about 200 army reservists are stationed in Iraq, with others in Kuwait, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Although some of this drop was due to the call-up of military reservists, the numbers were worse than analysts had expected.In Europe, the news has, if anything, been even grimmer.
The army, says one observer, doesn't think much of the NATO troops its peacekeepers have met abroad; and Finland, says Mr Lipponen, anyway has "solid" defences of its own, its small regular force backed by 400,000 reservists.
Their dismissal did not deter a dozen reservists in Israel's foremost special-forces unit from joining the refuseniks.In any event, demography bears an apocalyptic message.
A poll in mid-June by the American Research Group, which is based in Manchester, gave Mr Bush a job-approval rating of 41%, its lowest level of his presidency.Iraq certainly plays a role in this: New Hampshire has a relatively high share of reservists and around half of them have been called to service, one of the highest call-up ratios in the country.
Among the many hundreds of Jewish officers and reservists murdered was Baruch Steinberg, the chief rabbi of the Polish army.Poles may sense a sell-out: Mr Putin's language at Gdansk last year fell short of the kowtow that some desire; it may be the same at Katyn.
Six American army reservists, among them two women, are facing courts martial.
The Israeli cabinet authorised the call-up of 40,000 army reservists in preparation for any potential ground offensive.
