Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld is meeting today with officials of Montenegro to discuss the possibility of them providing troops to help in the Global War on Terror in Iraq.

Montenegro only became a country in June. According to the CIA Factbook, they have a population of only 630,000, and a GDP of only $2.4 billion, which is about how much the U.S. spends on the Global War on Terror in Iraq every week.

One possible obstacle to Rumsfeld's plan is that Montenegro currently has no standing army. They are in negotiations with Serbia on dividing up military assets, and plan to sell off most of the Serbian hardware still within their borders. Going forward, their plan is to establish a professional army of about 2500 troops, manned by 19 to 21 year old draftees who will serve for six months.