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For proposing granting U.S. citizenship to foreign nationals in exchange for four years of U.S. military service. Boot and O’Hanlon are respected authors and analysts; they have not penned “A Military Path to Citizenship” without careful thought and consideration of the flak it would cause. True, as Boot and O’Hanlon point out, America is a land of immigrants. And there is a long history of foreigners fighting valiantly beside and as part of the American military. Nonetheless, this takes the argument a step too far. Should the U.S. embark on a recruiting drive in South Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and East Asia, as the authors suggest, then we risk taking the potentially dangerous road of outsourcing our military defense to a foreign legion.