"Send more jihadists"
Iraq and Afghanistan are just two large items on the US global military agenda. The full US global deployment of its military forces is much less well known even to Americans. According to the latest official statistics straight from the Pentagon, about 370,000 US army troops are deployed in 120 countries, from a total active duty force of about 491,000. Army reservists and National Guard members on active duty this month total 136,835 out of a force of about 550,000. The Marine Corps has a total force of about 176,000 and about 20,000 of its reservists are now on active duty as well from a pool of 39,000. About 9,000 marines are now in Iraq. As of last week, US forces and Marines were also stationed in Afghanistan, Japan and the Horn of Africa and were currently conducting exercises in Brunei and in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Australia. According to the Pentagon, the US is in 120 nations with 370,000 troops out of 491,000 fully deployed across all these 120 nations. In purely military terms, that is as close to FULL forward deployment as any nation's forces ever ought to get.
The purpose of it all should be crystal clear to any American (or anyone else) with some basic useful historical knowledge. This is a textbook historical description of an EMPIRE. |
