If I can understand this theory, why can't retired military personnel?
And I think the armor complaint is silly, since the Abrams is both stronger and has a far longer range than the Iraqi armor.
That's what I think, anyway.
To give them the very best benefit of the doubt I think that what Major Garrett reported a little while on Fox is that many of the retired brass are of the overwhelming force school of the past and Rummy and Franks are applying the "adequate" force plan.
Because of my military wife contacts I know many of these additional units that have been called up were already a part of the deployment, just waiting for the call. So it is not some kind of a "Oh no, we don't have enough troops" reaction from the leadership.
This is just part of the plan. Some of these ninnys fretting and fainting about a "longer war" or "not enough troops in country" either have an agenda that is not pro-war or pro-victory or they are miffed that they haven't been given any inside information.
I know that some posters really think Major Bob is hot but I don't. COL David Hunt and General McInerry (can't spell his name) have provided some of the best analysis of the war so far.
I hope you don't think Major Bob has a political agenda? I don't. Like General McCaffrey I think he is just calling it like he sees it. I think McCaffrey has received some unwarranted flak for his assessment of the war plan to date. The military analysts are not here to be cheerleaders. Many people, especially here on FR, have tried to discredit McCaffrey by citing his past association with the Clinton administration. That's wrong. I despise Clinton as much as anyone here on FR, but I'm not going dismiss someone like General McCaffrey simply because he had a past association with x42's administration. We should simply consider his qualifications and the merits of his arguments. McCaffrey's military creditials are outstanding, he served as an infantry officer and saw combat both in Vietnam and GWI and has received three purple hearts. I'm sure that is why Major Bevelacqua respects his opinion. I think Bevelacqua, who BTW spent 17 years in the Army himself, carefully considered McCaffrey's argument that we would have been much better off with at least one or two more heavy divisions and concluded that he is correct.