We haven’t really tried to win even one war since about Aug 1945.
“He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor dampened, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue... In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
shhhh.......!!!
What if Iran and China hear you!!!
Mid-East & Taiwan would be 2 fronts....
Hey, maybe if we elect a President who doesn’t HATE AMERICA, we can revisit this policy?
The authors of this are whores if not traitors. Their loyalty is to their prostituted careers, not the country. If they cared about country, they would publicly resign rather than be complicit in this.
Sell out your country and get a star.
That’s “one plus” more than Ron Paul wants them to be able to fight.
By the end of an Obama 2nd term, we’ll know all the service members by their first names, all 12 of them, 3 per branch.
As soon as ObastardCare sets its roots deep into American society, we won’t be able to afford to wage war on a single front. Much less afford an entire war.
THe US FEderal Government ended the 2011 year with 100.3% Debt to GDP.
Every Single Federal Program Must Be Cut by 40% Before Individual Programs Are Targeted Just to Not Increase The National Debt.
I keep getting beaten up by freepers over the matter, but reality is reality. The DoD must be cut by 40%, I’d rather give up the two war strategy than TriCare, the VA budget and the GI Bill.
But something has to go.
They abandoned the two-front capability under Clinton.
Government is too busy confiscating money from its producing citizens and throwing it to the parasites of all stripes.
It does show some sense. One of the big mistakes made by the U.K. at the beginning of World War 1 was they assuming that the Huns were just the latest crop of barbarians - that they'd roll over and die like the Dervishes, etc. "The War Will Be Over By Christmas" meant, "We'll win this one in months."
Needless to say, the Hun proved to be a lot more formidable than the Brits though in July and August of 1914.
It sounds to me like the Pentagon has learned from that overconfidence, and is trying to make sure it isn't duplicated in America.
When did we go back to the two war doctrine? Under Clinton, we operated under the ‘win one major land war... and play defense in a second war’.
Which is pretty much what is being proposed.
So... I don’t remember President Bush ever rescinding that. Meaning that it never changed, thus this isn’t new.
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Obama: Mission Accomplished.
Started by Clinton/Aspin who lying claimed "we should be able to fight two wars at once"...instead of take on the whole rest of the world at once. ;-)
NO Cheers, unfortunately.
Great Britain 2.0.....fading into the sunset...the USA
I am profoundly saddened. That the US has fallen from what had once been its unassailable perch as greatest military power ever is not mere talk anymore, has hit home in a very demonstrative, emphatic way. Give the Pentagon great credit for acknowledging the sober reality of its newly-realized limitations in repositioning ourselves to dealing with crises that we will face in the truthfulness, honesty it demands.
Absolutely amazing. No words!
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