Seems our American cousins are feeling the pinch also, text below from the Daily Mail on line.
This mirrors exactly what is being discussed in the Uk and on E-Goat.
"We lost more of the cream of the crop as opposed to folks who would get weeded out," he says.
When officers drop out, those who remain have to scale back.
"There's only so many things we can do," he says. "Eventually, we start turning operations off."
Not everyone sees the situation in dire terms. A Pentagon spokesman says there has been little change in "officer separations levels", as he puts it.
The numbers have remained relatively stable over the past decade, according to the spokesman, Lt Cdr Nate Christensen, who works in the office of the assistant defence secretary.
He says 14,364 officers left the Army in fiscal year 2003. In fiscal year 2012, 17,794 officers quit.
Tim Kane, author of the 2012 book Bleeding Talent, says statistics hide what is really happening: the smart ones leave.
But he says it is not just the war that drives them out.
Iraq war: How the year US troops served defined what they saw
"In the military, they manage their personnel terribly. They treat human capital like a logistics problem, so any captain is interchangeable with any other captain," he says.
"People rotate quickly, and you're constantly sending in green people to do a job," he says.
"It's very common for someone who's been in the military for 20 years to have moved 22 times."
This mirrors exactly what is being discussed in the Uk and on E-Goat.
"We lost more of the cream of the crop as opposed to folks who would get weeded out," he says.
When officers drop out, those who remain have to scale back.
"There's only so many things we can do," he says. "Eventually, we start turning operations off."
Not everyone sees the situation in dire terms. A Pentagon spokesman says there has been little change in "officer separations levels", as he puts it.
The numbers have remained relatively stable over the past decade, according to the spokesman, Lt Cdr Nate Christensen, who works in the office of the assistant defence secretary.
He says 14,364 officers left the Army in fiscal year 2003. In fiscal year 2012, 17,794 officers quit.
Tim Kane, author of the 2012 book Bleeding Talent, says statistics hide what is really happening: the smart ones leave.
But he says it is not just the war that drives them out.
Iraq war: How the year US troops served defined what they saw
"In the military, they manage their personnel terribly. They treat human capital like a logistics problem, so any captain is interchangeable with any other captain," he says.
"People rotate quickly, and you're constantly sending in green people to do a job," he says.
"It's very common for someone who's been in the military for 20 years to have moved 22 times."