"Leadfoot" wrote in
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Last time I checked our military was stretched extremely thin. Whicha

Check again. Yeah it isn't easy but "stretched thin". Come on.
ANd-uh the size of the military is determined by Congress. I
can just imagine the howling were the administration to propose
increasing the size of the military on a permanent basis and to
fund the increase. Trotsqerry and his band of boobs wanted 20K, then
40K, and finally 80K extra troops if you believed theur pre-election
rhetoric. News flash you don't add that many troops overnight and
expect them to deploy even the year after. Not unless you are on
a war footing with all that implies.

has allowed the Iranian version of Hitler to thumbs his nose at us while
he acquires nukes. And making the assumption that military action (if
required) against Iran can be limited to airstrikes is ludicrous.

Umm we could take out the Ahmadamnutjob in very short order if the
usual suspects ( Eurabia ) could be convinced to STFU and step out
of the way. Given what we know know about Eurabian involvement in
trying to prevent Sodom the Insane's date with justice, I'm inclined
to say Screw Eurabia and get on with the job.

Conscripts don't
have the retainability or the necessary skills for the configuration
of the current US military establishment.

That depends on who and how long you draft them for. Although it might
be quite possible to add some division the old fashioned way... with
volunteers.

Divisions are so last century. The unit of manoeuvre is the brigade.
You could draft several brigades worth of enlisted easily but where
would the equipment and experienced cadre come from?

If you've watched operations
recently you might have noted that we no longer depend upon massed
forces marching in lock-step across the plains of Waterloo.

One of the worst mistakes we can make is to assume that we will fight
future wars like the last one.

In short become French.

In the case of Iraq they were weakened by a previous war, had an arms
embargo and were studied in minute detail for the twelve years before we
invaded.

And notwithstanding this the usual suspects were shrieking about
massive casualties on a scale that would make a veteran of the
Somme blench.

If we are really lucky the next major war will be fought after the next
Presidential election. The present fools have show themselves to be
completely incompetent.

Where is Sodom the Insane? He isn't in any of his palaces.
Where are Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden. Not in Kabul, probably
not in the 'stan at all.

IBM