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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 01:02 AM
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow - Spencer Ackerman breaks Afghanistan deployment news
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow - Spencer Ackerman breaks Afghanistan deployment news
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Army Data Show Constraints on Troop Increase Potential
Escalation in Afghanistan Could Leave Few Brigades in Reserve

If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat deployments since 2002.

According to information compiled by the U.S. Army for The Washington Independent about the deployment status of active-duty and National Guard Army brigades, as of December 2009, there will be about 50,600 active-duty soldiers, serving in 14 combat brigades, and as many as 24,000 National Guard soldiers available for deployment. All other soldiers and National Guardsmen will either be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan already or ineligible to deploy while they rest from a previous deployment.



Obama is expected to announce a decision on an escalation of troop levels for Afghanistan shortly after returning from his trip to Asia on Friday, which would be the second such escalation of his young presidency. That decision follows a request issued in September from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, in which McChrystal delivered the Obama administration with a palette of different troop-level options to turn around a faltering war effort. While White House officials have cautioned reporters that Obama has made no final choice on the size of a troop increase, a widely re-reported McClatchy story claimed that the administration was likely to send 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, which would raise U.S. troop levels in the eight-year war to an all-time high of 102,000. It is likely that Obama would include members of the other military services, especially the Marines, in any troop increase, but the vast majority of any new troop complement will come from the Army.

The shortage of available combat brigades means that an escalation of between 30,000 and 40,000 troops is “not realistic,” said Lawrence Korb, a former senior Pentagon official in the Reagan administration who now studies defense issues for the liberal Center for American Progress. To send practically all available soldiers into one of the two wars would leave the U.S. with “no reserve in case you had a problem in Korea.”


http://washingtonindependent.com/68174/army-data-shows-contraints-on-troop-increase-potential
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hmorehead Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 01:21 AM
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1. The war will be over as soon as there is a draft. And to man these wars any further
its time for a draft. End the war NOW!
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 02:02 AM
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2. The entire war cheerleading GOP senate and their families will certainly volunteer
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 02:03 AM
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3. Or were they hoping to prevent the stimulus and make soldiering the only job in town?
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 02:06 AM
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4. N. Klien said they were "outsourcing" this kind of thing, maybe to Haliburton and Japan
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 02:09 AM
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5. Drafts can only be used for "necessary" wars right?
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-19-09 07:17 AM
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6. Wait- this is not "breaking Afghanistan deployment news"...
he's just saying how understaffed our military is, right?

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