<our forces could handle another major engagement elsewhere in short order.>
You don't know what you are talking about, John.
At a Pentagon briefing three weeks ago, officials said that only two of the Army's ten active divisions not now deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan will be combat-ready during the first six months of this year. Four other divisions, now coming home from Iraq, will need the time following deployment to rest, retrain, and re- equip. The now retired US General, Barry R. McCaffrey, a former Division Commander has publicly stated that with four to five divisions below the Army's C-1 rating, the situation: "means literally half the Army is broken and not ready to fight. It's an unacceptable, in my judgment, strategic risk."
For the next six months, the US is militarily facing a black hole should something else happen.
This describes only the present near static military situation. A recent statement from the US Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois said this: "First, we are rotating entire units into and out of the theater of operations rather than only moving individual troops as in past operations. Second, the entire period to complete this rotation of forces is short, just four months."
"This will be the biggest movement of troops since the Korean War" - said retired Army Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, the US Army's chief war planner during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Get a life John. You living in fantasy land, kid. |
