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ArizonaSunSwitch -> RE: Combat Brigade ready on US soil.. WTF?? (10/23/2008 9:39:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
What has been made available for use in the US is civil operations brigade, which technically IS a combat unit, however the operational scope is limited to fire, medical, hazmat response.
When you consider the average brigade strength, usually 2 to five regiments, or about 4000 men, it is highly probable that the unit will have to dig into reserve and guard forces to make up the compliment.
As for sending the people that should be doing this to Iraq, may I once again remind everyone that prior to the Iraqi invasion, President Bush was told by top ranking pentagon staff involved in the planning of the operation that the US did not have enough troops to take and pacify the country, EVEN with help from other countries.
At the highest strength, the US had 543482 troops in Vietnam in 1969. The highest number of American troops in Iraq has been around 150000.
The total area in Iraq to be controlled is 169,234 square miles.
The total land area in SOUTH Vietnam was around 60,000 square miles.
The breaks down to about 9 american troops per square mile, HOWEVER, to that number you have to add, 12 more troops from south vietnam, south korea, New Zealand, the Philippines and Australia.
In other words, at the highest troop strength in the Vietnam war, it stood at 1,263,418 troops, while the total communist forces remained BELOW 600000!
Now, would someone care to explain why some bunch of idiots think they can pacify a land area twice the size of the last major long term war with less than half the troops?
It would appear that the troops presently deployed in Iraq would fall under the classification of "cannon fodder."
Cannon fodder is the term for a whole bunch of personnel that you stick in harms way and decide they are expendable... because you cant think of a better plan to get what needs to be done done.
Welcome to the United States of 2008, and the new population control program referred to blood and stupidity, our troops blood, Bush's stupidity.
Wow, how interesting. Help me with this though, if all of that is true, why is it we're winning to the point that 66 percent of what our military used to do is now handed over to iraqi troops ?
Please, you're spewing your party's propaganda from a year ago, your party leaders know the war is won which is why you hardly hear anything about iraqi now. Please try to keep up.
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