[cva66snipe]

Think seriously for one moment. How quick can a replacement base be built in a time of war? It's like firing a companies trouble shooting department because at the present moment there are no problems. But wait all of the sudden there is a multitude of them. Where are the trained workers you had? The cost to build a new department, the cost of the loss while waiting, the cost of traing another group to that level of experience you fired? That description puts it in business terms so now maybe some can understand cause and effect of what has happened in the past 13 years to the military. This is what has been doen to our military since 1989 on. Both parties did it and neither are right.

[Koblenz]

Think seriously for one moment. How quick can a replacement base be built in a time of war? It's like firing a companies trouble shooting department because at the present moment there are no problems. But wait all of the sudden there is a multitude of them. Where are the trained workers you had? The cost to build a new department, the cost of the loss while waiting, the cost of traing another group to that level of experience you fired? That description puts it in business terms so now maybe some can understand cause and effect of what has happened in the past 13 years to the military. This is what has been doen to our military since 1989 on. Both parties did it and neither are right.

But the next war we fight is not going to be a massive mobilization of troops going to another country to establish beachheads, capture territory, etc. The next war we fight is going to see ground troops, but it's going to be a small number of elite, well-trained ground troops going in and getting a job done. Some reservists will be called up, of course, as reservists are primarily in support roles.