Faced with lengthy and grueling deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US army reserve is rapidly turning into "a broken force" and may not be able to meet its operational requirements in the future, its commander acknowledged in a memorandum made public late Wednesday.

The comments by Lieutenant General James Helmly were expected to raise new questions about the sustainability of the war in Iraq without reintroducing the draft or other forms of compulsory military service.

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