Coal Mine Canary for Endless War

The Galloping Beaver has a revealing item about the overextension of the British Army, which will deploy its last reserve unit to Kosovo, leaving Britain with no forces available to handle contingencies. British forces are considerably smaller than the American military but it's not hard to see what's happening to our allies as an all-too-possible future for the United States. The stresses on the British military are the same as American forces are now experiencing.

I think I can do the math here. Open-ended war plus borrowed funds plus extended deployments equals an unsustainable effort.

Don't think it's not already happening.