U.S. Army Close To Breaking Point
by Derek W. on January 25th, 2006
A new Pentagon report says that the U.S. Army has become a “thin green line” that is in danger of breaking if no help comes soon.
How thin, how dangerous, and how soon?
It is likely, the study says, that the army literally won’t be able to outlast the insurgency in Iraq:
Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon’s decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.
Interestingly enough, on Monday Army Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno asserted that U.S. forces must prepare for a long war spanning a minimum of two decades:
“This generation of servicemembers will be in what we’re calling the Long War,” the general said. “Our estimate is that for at least the next 20 years, part of our focus will be on how do we deal with the extremist networks that will continue to threaten the United States and its allies.”
5 Comments
Sam Ashwood
January 25th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Looks like they’re building up for a draft. That seems to be the only way they can sustain this unending war Bush dragged us into.
Just One Thought
January 26th, 2006 at 10:30 am
The military can definitely outlast the terrorists. They might need to decrease troop levels, but this will just hurt the effectiveness of troops in Iraq. It would not affect who wins the war.
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Sam Ashwood
January 26th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Why on earth do you think the military can outlast the terrorists? The longer we remain in the Middle East, the more Muslims are going to turn to terrorism in an effort to evict us from what they view as their home territory. Anyone who thinks we can win this war, like we won WW2, is kidding themselves. This is an unending, and unwinnable war.
Melanie Lamere
February 5th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Sam, With God anything is possible. If God wants this war to work than it will. If he doesn’t it won’t it is a s simple as that. What we need to do is pray that the president is in God’s will.
Danny Boy
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Sam, by what logic is the War in Iraq unwinnable?
we have more troops.
We have better troops.
We have better weapons.
We have the Iraq Military on our side.
We have the majority of Iraqi civilians on our side.
We have better funding.
We ARE on the right side of the issue (something that goes a long way with God) wink.
We aren’t losing all of our Military leaders.
The only way for us to lose is for us to listen to whinny, wimpy, blubberings like those you stated above.