Yet another study that documents the American military is being over utilized and that the strength of the Active Army is too small for the current deployments. In the 2000 Campaign Bush acknowledged the Military was too small and that was BEFOR the Iraq war. After becoming Commander-in-Chief he ignored the needs of our military and made the problems even greater.
The study concludes the Army is a thin green line that could snap. There are still some that are actually looking at yet another flash point in Iran.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/25/army.study.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.
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.
