Worse, what does exist is not sustainable, because we are not geared up to sustain it --- that is by order of the President --- I am also sorry to inform you.
The situation is grim, because he has not involved the American people, in fact he has refused the American people, their need to participate, not merely to cheer on.
American wins when the people are in the fight -- that is why George Washington was a champion of the Congress giving the OK for war.
Cheering, is not being in the fight. At home, being in the fight, is being involved in producing war material and shipping it; this includes full-time participation in building up and maintaining the logistics train --- which I am aware, that you know, this must be done.
We are not doing it.
We are not increasing our airlift capacity as we must for wartime conditions. We are not supporting commercial aviation --- to the contrary, we are letting it lapse.
We should have long ago, by Dec. 2001, been ramping up C-17 "Globemaster" production, but we have not --- that alone, is a serious failure by the President.
If you want to win, call the White House, call the Congress, and demand that the logistics problems be attended to before all else of the "pork" spending and political correctness.
The White House is deaf, so far, to understanding that we need airpower. We need 400 C-17's, so that we can lift a full armor division in a short time of mission cycles. We need tens of thousands of aviation maintenance personnel whom we do not, now have.
I'm sorry to add, we need this plus a lot more, to account for possible material losses --- and that, is something which the White House has also not got a handle on at all.
Now that I can agree to - since the nature of war is evolving against smaller, more elusive enemies, we need the ability to move sufficient forces against an enemy before they can melt away into surrounding countries.