[Pukin Dog]

The decrease in the size of our Military should be compared with the logic of instead of using two pistols to shoot someone, you can usually do a better job with one shotgun.

All the talk about the smaller size of our military does not take into account the fact that our current military could wipe the floor with our own military of 10 years ago. It would not even be a fair fight.

[Poohbah]

This article attracts a certain sort of FReeper who is much given to hysteria, and is woefully ignorant of what the military is, what it does, and how it does it. This FReeper's idea of strategy, operations, and tactics are dervied from Grade-Z war movies. In short, this sort of FReeper knows about as much about real war as those bilious bastards at the Saturday Evening Post know about fornicating.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Our Military is still too small. We can't make up for a lack of troops with improved weapon technology alone. I agree that we don't need the same amount of troops that we once did but we need to have a better balance of new weapons tech and actual troops. We don't have as many troops as we need if China and North Korea decide to attack Taiwan and South Korea.