"There weren’t enough trained language experts."
There were plenty, the military just fired them all for being gay.
There were plenty, the military just fired them all for being gay.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/58_gay_arab_linguists_ouste...
There simply weren't plenty of linguists before or after those discharges (which obviously didn't make the situation any better). There still isn't for languages like Arabic and Persian Farsi. Attrition rates for DLI are high.