I have mentioned on these boards before that the military had made no use of the troops that train at the Mountain Warfare School here. I thought that once we went into Afghanistan that these folks would be amongst the first called up. At the very least I would think that the officers and senior non-coms from the school could go overseas to do a quicky course for those about to go into Afghanistan.
(tin foil alert) One reason this war may be going the way it is, is because it is really not a war on terrorism...
For instance, if the US Establishment were dealing with an internal civil war, being played out by proxies abroad, and business struggles (along with symbolic strikes) domestically. Such a struggle might be between, say, the US globalist One World types battling against patriots loyal, first, to the Constitution...
In this view, various power blocs within the US Establishment would maintain control of, or the allegiance of, various elements within the already highly insular and compartmentalized US military.
The Establishment would then have to do a number of things carefully. Seemingly "appropriate" units may be excluded from one theater or another because the units could be controlled by the opposing power bloc. "International" forces may play unexpected roles -- NATO AWACS over the US, or British forces doing a little bit of everything, or French forces picking and choosing what they want to do...
It's difficult to imagine exactly what a civil war would look like in a Western country in the modern world. But since everyone would still need the citizenry to keep calm and keep working to pay for the struggle, it would be in everyone's interest to maintain a facade like the "war on terror." It seems a civil war would look a lot like what we're seeing these days...
Mark W.