We're in the robotics age. We aren't fighting WW2 anymore. I'd rather spend an extra $52 billion on autonomous sniper machines, scout vehicles, virtual fences, moving land mines. Machines don't complain to Congress. Rumsfeld was trying to go in this direction.
Machines are incapable of patrolling in the way an infantry soldier can, and that's the brunt of the work being done. If you want to give those soldiers enhanced tools for the job, that's fine, but you're not going to replace the grunt any time soon. Stop watching so much of the Discovery channel.
Great plan. Have moving land mines and automated sniper machines blowing up kids and kittens for the nightly news. Excellent plan, really.
Marines I have spoke to disagree with that. I was told with a 100,000 more men they could of swept that country and been done with it. And those in Washington were more interested in fighting the war using technology than men and firepower.