“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want” is one of the most assinine sentences every uttered by a politician and the SecDef at that!
It was disgusting reading posts on FR defending that comment.
We went to war in 43 with almost nothing, People were training with wooden rifles, Our tanks were tin cans. We were not at all ready. It took a total transformation of society to change and arm ourselves to win. We went to war then with what we had, not what we wish we had. It just happened again!