[AntiGuv]

South Korea, Japan, and Germany can take care of themselves.

[CBart95]

This allegation has been refuted many times before. The US military is the largest and strongest military force in the world and has no equal opposite force anywhere.

We almost single-handedly won the Iraq war without Coalition forces and have resolutely kept other participating forces to a minimum. According to numerous military experts we are capable of waging war on many fronts and in many places simultaneously, if neccesary.

Liberals and peaceniks have long promulgated the notion that somehow the US is undermanned and spread too thin. This is absolute hogwash. Amateurs have no fundamental idea of how military organizations are run,organized and supported and rely on comic book notions of what military operations actually are.

This piece is just another fruitless attempt to undermine our efforts in Iraq and in the Middle East against the forces of world wide terror and comes as just another tired diatribe waged by spineless liberals to discredit our government,our leadership and our brave men and women defending our freedom around the world. It's pure unadulterated, Hate America enemy propaganda.

[Texas_Jarhead]

How many infantry Divisions were eliminated during The Zipper's reign?

[upcountryhorseman]

Aside from getting U. S. Forces out of Germany, Japan, and
any other WW 2 occupied country: the rest is BS! We should put The Air Force to work knocking out atomic facilities
in Iran.

[truth_seeker]

"Currently, the US military is enacting a "one in three" policy in which active duty soldiers must serve one year abroad for every three years of duty."

During Vietnam it was a "one in two" policy for draftees. Two year hitch, with one in Vietnam.

[George W. Bush]

Given our treatment by South Korea and the dangerously irresponsible behavior they've exhibited, I think we should pull out of there first. Let those radical Korean college students go out and guard their border with the North.

Japan needs more support and encouragement to assert itself militarily and develop its own nukes and antiballistic defenses.

[RightWhale]

Mobility is the key to modern warfare.

[Old_Mil]

With some 350,000 troops stationed in approximately 120 countries, over 60 percent of the US Army is dedicated to active duty. Currently, the US military is enacting a "one in three" policy in which active duty soldiers must serve one year abroad for every three years of duty.

Anyone have any more information about this? Is this just active duty, or does it apply to the guard as well? If it does, it's going to destroy a lot of civilian careers.

[Gamecock]

From where I sit, I would agree the Army is too small. We need the Army we had in the '80s. The OPTEMPO is driving a lot of talented young Soldiers and officers back into the civilian world.

We just can't keep deploying the same Soldiers to Iraq every 12-18 months and expect then to commit for a career.

[Non-Sequitur]

Currently, the US military is enacting a "one in three" policy in which active duty soldiers must serve one year abroad for every three years of duty.

That is rapidly becoming a "one in two" policy.

[MortMan]

Can anyone tell me why we're still in Kosovo? Not being cheeky, but Clinton's war has been off the radar screen for so long I don't even know why we are still there.

[Doc91678]

For starters, we can pull out the troops in Bosnia, South Korea and the area between Israel and Egypt then reduce our forces in Germany.
I'm sure that would increase the number of available troops. However, we can not replace the gutting of troops that the Clinton administration caused. That along with the gutting of the NSA and CIA. Those cuts along with the PC attitude of the Democrats eventually cost us the civilian lives of WTC, Afghanistan and Iraq. But my opinion is only one of a Monday morning quarterback. If Americans were true to their country there would not be a need for a draft. Its cities like San Francisco and Liberal Colleges throughout the nation that have caused the reduction in enlistments.

[DakotaRed]

I believe they think they have it all figured out: Right in a Left World: The Army We Need? Not So Fast!