WD & Bb - You guys bring to mind the balance pole a high wire "artist" uses to walk a tightrope - and a tightrope is exactly where we find ourselves today. You both make legitimate points that support the Regiment's relevance. Stay flexible, the chasm is getting deeper, the other side isn't in sight, and the competing/conflicting/often mutually exclusive demands (with scraps for resources) on the Regiment are directly analogous to the winds and sway imperiling the "artist". Quick thinking and the ability to shift the balance pole is all that is going to keep us on the wire - falling off isn't an option, there is no safety net. 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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