i had posted this some time way back on another thread...i was just asked to repost it.
here you will get to see the specific numbers about a subject often discussed, but seldom quantified.
Subject: Name the Country!
709,000 regular (active duty) service personnel
293,000 reserve troops; Eight standing Army divisions;
20 Air Force and Navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft;
232 strategic bombers;
13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with
3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles;
500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads;
Four aircraft carriers, and;
121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support bases,
shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force.
Is this country Russia? . . . No
Red China ? . . . No
Great Britain? . . . Wrong Again
USA? . . . Hardly Give up??
Well, don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify this global
superpower because this country no longer exists.
It has vanished.
These are the American military forces that have disappeared since the
1992 election of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
some think well...we can just rely on USAF...many question why the war started slow...some question why the number of daily sorties is so much lower than in the gulf war...well i have an answer.
we lost the combat capability that we had!
in 1991 USAF was 608,000 strong...by 1998 they had drawn down to 381,000. we lost 2,000 combat aircraft and 232 bombers. certainly that cut our capacity for sorties.
the navy lost over 120 ships in that same time frame. certainly that slowed down shipping munitions to the theater of operations.
That was our peace dividend...
anybody enjoying all the extra $?
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