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Army nears a breaking point
San Antonio News ^ | 3/29/07 | Allard

Posted on 03/29/2007 1:04:06 PM PDT by pabianice

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1 posted on 03/29/2007 1:04:07 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

Don't know Allard's politics or qualifications.


2 posted on 03/29/2007 1:04:39 PM PDT by pabianice
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We will deal with this crisis by refusing to use the Army, for fear it might get scratched.

No chance, with the present Congress, that we will provide the resouces for the armed forces to meet their obligations.


3 posted on 03/29/2007 1:06:59 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: pabianice
After consuming the peace dividend

There was never a peace dividend....just a cost shift.
4 posted on 03/29/2007 1:07:27 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: pabianice

Let's see, the Army was suppose to implode in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006...

Still waiting, waiting, waiting for said implosion.....


5 posted on 03/29/2007 1:08:08 PM PDT by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: pabianice

Do you actually think the politics of a retired colonel might change the facts in this kind of a review?


6 posted on 03/29/2007 1:09:21 PM PDT by ER Doc
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To: pabianice

From the speaker's bureau that represents him:

"A former army colonel, Kenneth Allard is a well-known commentator on international security issues and is featured as a military analyst with MSNBC and NBC News, as well as a regular columnist for MSNBC.com."

ie. all purpose rent-a-talking-head.


7 posted on 03/29/2007 1:09:30 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: pabianice

The last sentence mentions the upcoming war with Iran. We will contain the Iranian military with our Air Power.


8 posted on 03/29/2007 1:09:41 PM PDT by unkus
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More money, please.


9 posted on 03/29/2007 1:09:53 PM PDT by brivette
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To: pabianice
SOSDD...This story/opinion get rehashed year after year by some REMF. Nothing new.


10 posted on 03/29/2007 1:12:09 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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"82nd Airborne Division, "the so-called ready brigade is no longer so ready" to fight. Its soldiers are untrained, and its equipment is elsewhere.

The 82nd is light infantry. They don't have much equipment. Pretty much if they show up standing, they're there.

Untrained? Ah, like since most of them, and especially the NCO's and officers have gone from a peace time shine your jump boots everyday to actual war fighting, they are untrained? I...don't...think...so.

Not ready to fight? If I was this puke writer, I wouldn't yell that in a Fayetteville saloon if I was him.

This article is leftist boob bait.

11 posted on 03/29/2007 1:13:06 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: Al Gator

Well, according to the ads; it's an Army of One. So as long as there's at least "one" in uniform; we have an Army. :-|


12 posted on 03/29/2007 1:15:09 PM PDT by AFreeBird (This space for rent. Inquire within)
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To: ER Doc
Do you actually think the politics of a retired colonel might change the facts in this kind of a review?

Do you actually think it couldn't?

13 posted on 03/29/2007 1:15:31 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (Global Emergency!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Write a lefty loving scare article.

TV shows pay you to come on and buff what you wrote.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat as cash flow requires.
14 posted on 03/29/2007 1:15:52 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: Sherman Logan
No chance, with the present Congress, that we will provide the resouces for the armed forces to meet their obligations.

We weren't doing that with the last Congress, either.

15 posted on 03/29/2007 1:17:57 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: unkus
We will contain the Iranian military with our Air Power.

Agreed. No need for a ground campaign. We may need some spec ops to take out their gasoline refinery and perhaps some naval installations, but that's about it.

16 posted on 03/29/2007 1:20:16 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: brivette
More money, please.

No more money available. No more troops, either.

17 posted on 03/29/2007 1:20:27 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Al Gator
Still waiting, waiting, waiting for said implosion.....

Silly boy.

All those uneducated misfits who couldn't get a real job like John Kerry.

They were soundly defeated in '91 by the Elite Republican Guard.

All that stuff you see on TV is just a fabrication made on a sound stage in Nevada.

18 posted on 03/29/2007 1:21:30 PM PDT by dinasour (Pajamahadeen, SnowFlake, and Eeevil Doer.)
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To: unkus
We will contain the Iranian military with our Air Power.

Why not, when it worked so well with Iraq?

19 posted on 03/29/2007 1:21:50 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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I don't know either but if it's true he's a Wes Clark Democrat I won't put much faith in him.
20 posted on 03/29/2007 1:22:21 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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