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To: DMaA who wrote (491727)	6/20/2012 12:01:05 AM
From: unclewest	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

Name a military in history more powerful? Every military that won their last war. Military power is an interesting and often difficult metric to measure until you get on the battlefield. The crucible of war determines power in very unique ways. If you measure power in nukes, we are about to become outnumbered. I am results oriented. And I believe in seeking truth. Winning wars is powerful. Losing them is clearly weak. History provides many examples of the so called "most powerful" army in the world getting their collective asses whupped. A lot of wars have been fought by America since WWII (a war we clearly won). The only war we have won since WWII was in El Salvador, and it was won by exactly 50 US Army Green Berets. We have not won any other wars since we replaced the winning 35,000 man strong WWII War Department with the losing one million+ strong DOD at the end of WWII. Let's do a reality check. How do you measure/evaluate our piss-poor results in our other wars since WWII? Do you really see power in those losses? Do you have a warm and comfy feeling that DOD is keeping you safe and simultaneously losing wars? If you don't, I offer this thought. The only way we can improve something is to change it, but first we need to understand why it needs changing and what needs changing. Only then should we begin to develop what changes should be made.