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Army Wearing Out?


In June of 2003, the Pentagon’s planners assumed that the U.S. would withdraw all of its combat brigades from Iraq roughly 20 months after the end of major combat operations. Those plans were revised in September of that year, and assumed a complete withdrawal about one year later than had previously been expected. Today, there are 16 U.S. combat brigades in Iraq (including 2 Marine Corps regiments), and there is little prospect that the deployment rate will decrease in the near future...

Besonders sticht heraus:

It should be noted that this assessment closely mirrors what the Army has been saying itself, again and again, in private meetings on Capitol Hill.

"There are no more troops to send to Iraq," Daniel Benjamin writes in Slate. "That is the unmistakable message of an Army briefing making the rounds in Washington. According to in-house assessments... not a single one of the Army's Brigade Combat Teams — its core fighting units — currently in the United States is ready to deploy. In short, the Army has no strategic reserve to speak of."

Tja. Der Iran freut sich sicherlich.