The only bit I know about military logistics is from reading Pagonis's book. As a general rule, in any supply chain there is a certain amount of elasticity. In theory, there should be excess capacity which is occupied by luxuries, say 20 pallets of frozen pizza dough. In an emergency, those 20 pallets can be replaced by an AFV or tank.

If I understand this correctly, then the either capacity to move necessary supplies has shrunk, the amount of necessary supplies has risen, or the amount of unnecessary supplies has risen.

Option C means that the excess capacity is still there if needed. Options A or B mean that operations have expanded or capacity has shrunk.

It really sucks that in all the money that got sucked into Iraq, building literally crappy buildings, not to mention a 'super embassy' compound that we are probably going to be forced to abandon in the near future, noone could find a spare 100 million to upgrade two airports in Afghanistan.

My experience has been that there was but one company that was pre-positioned to provide service to deployed troops, and I was the receipent of those services, Haliburton. Love them or hate them, they were the only company who over the 50 years learned to pre-position themselves to provide the services that we needed. Were they always good? no. Where they always there? yes. The whole smoke and mirrors bullshit arguement that there were "no bid" contracts was a weak arguement put forward by those who failed to get in the game early. Were the buildings crapy? sure, but the beat laying in the sand. Did all the generators work all the time? nope, but there were people there to fix them. Did the food suck? Nope, because we ate pretty damm well.

Screw the armchair quarterbacks.

Ask folks in the inner city or those, particularly minorities. who feel disenfranchised and they will say the same thing about ACORN.

For forty years they pre-positioned themselves to be there for the underserved community. The whole smoke and mirrors bullshit argument that they had an institutional plan to commit voter fraud was a weak argument by those who did not want to see increased voter participation in the minority communities.l

Were they always good? no Did the minority community get assistance with housing, credit and finance issues, voter registration. You bet they did.

And they never sexually molested (or allegedly gang raped) a co-worker or knowingly endangered the lives of others and committed negligent homicide from faulty wiring in showers.

Screw you, hypocrite.

Fuck off you idiot. Don't try to redirect the subject. This is not a discussion of the tit suckers...

Fuck those ACORN law breakers. They were the ones who were committing voter fraud, and they got caught now didn't they? The whole race card has been over played by your Demoncratic Party scumbags.... See you in Nov. :D

Cant take the heat? Too fucking bad.

You might think gang rape and negligent homicide is no big deal. Not me, dude.

Tit sucking? How about grossly overcharging on govt contracts to the tune of $hundred of millions?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

Your party is fucked.... and I love it.

Ok, if it was Nancy give me a call, I could sell your video to the internet....

Smile, dude.

You've been exposed again for the hypocritical bullshiter you are.

I have never varied from my position you Demoncratic Shrill...

You have been repeatedly exposed.

Your party is fucked in the Nov....

I get it, dude.

You dont care about gang rape, negligent homicide, $millions in overcharges by Haliburton.

Its all about fuck ACORN and fuck the Democrats?

Very classy, dude.

Gang rape? So you can prove that this was the responibility of a corp and not of a few individuals? Cool, I am sure that those involved would love your help!

But no, you really have nothing to add scumbag. You are trailing on the teathers of a news report....

The courts will sort out the bad people, as they should. Let the system work. But no, you have to stick your asshole on the post of Demoncratic and White House Talking Points spokesperson on this forum, you fail........

Fuck you and your party of Demoncats...

Same could be said about ACORN...a few bad people.....let the systew work....the courts will sort out the bad people as it should.

But no...not good enough for you....hypocrite.

You can dish out but you cant take it and your double standards have been exposed once again.

I made my point.

:lol2:

Fuck you. Only your party will have to answer to the higher Health Care fees, the taxes, the failure on your parties part to control costs, you are fucked come Nov..... :D And I love it. The electorate has taken notice. Fall on your sword asshole, take a video and post it for us to watch....

ACORN!?!! Holy crap... you are going to hold this group of scumbags up as an example of your Demoncratic morals? You have got to be kidding me... You own them, you got them, they are yours, enjoy. They will forever be associated with the Demoncratic party...

I can take anything you put out fuck.... :lol2: