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Originally Posted by lookout123
the problem is that we are always forced to fight the current war with the last administration's military. 2 1/2 wars was difficult even with the larger reagan/bush military. bush I started the restructuring post cold war, clinton just went too far in downsizing. the war on terror is being fought by clinton's military. bush and rumsfeld are still working on their own restructure but they are not increasing the size of the military fast enough, IMO.
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Actually, during Clinton the military was restructured for just these kinds of low intensity conflicts. More nuclear subs and heavy bombers would not go any farther in winning Iraq for us.
What the military was not ready for was a large scale peacekeeping/occupation/nation building role. GWB led us unprepared into a role we have not held in 60 years. Even then, we had the whole world, except for the Eastern Bloc behind us. Even they would probably have preferred a stable West Germany to the kind of chaos we have in Iraq.
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