[lit-ideas] Re: Where There's a Will There's a Won't
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- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:45:40 EDT
You're not allowing for the possibility of a draft...........
Julie Krueger
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>>Meanwhile, domestic supporters see you as unwavering and
just the sort of person to lead a country in difficult times.
War will NOT happen. Consider our troop levels. In the
military, fielding one division requires two in reserve: one
division leaving the scene, one division training for the
scene, and the division that is fielded. That's how it works.
When Clinton reduced the number of divisions in the
military, he overthrew the decades-old plan of our military
being able to fight two major theater wars simultaneously.
Consequently, we do not have the divisional strength to wage
a conventional war against Iran.
This was also the problem with troop strength in Iraq.
Before Clinton, we had 18 divisions; after Clinton, about 10
poorly-equipped divisions, which meant we could field three
divisions at best. (As stated above, for every active
division there has to be two: one leaving the scene, one
training for it.)
If we had Gulf War I troop strength, we could have put 6
divisions in Iraq and that would have pacified the place.
When General Shinseki requested 500,000 troops for Iraq, he
was essentially asking for four or five more divisions which
we didn't have ... and that's why they gave him the boot. He
was telling them we didn't have enough troops to pacify Iraq
and they didn't want to hear it.
I believe we had about 90 divisions during WW2 -- feel free
to correct me on this -- and so our having only about 1/9th
of our WW2 strength gives you a relative idea of our
capacity for force projection.
Also, Clinton broke up the functions of Army units to put
things like PsyOps and other functions into the
Reserve...which is why we have to call up so many Army
reservists.
So relax. We're not going to wage conventional war in Iran.
Also I'm just telling you how it works, and not blaming
Clinton. He probably had no idea we'd need more divisional
forces ... although he should have funded a lot more
equipment maintenance.
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