http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11009829/

They're always undermining... um... their own morale. Or something.

Quote :

" "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."

Certainly they're not saying that the war is unwinnable. (http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=5986) That would undermine troop morale!

It's amazing to me how quickly we can now go from someone being attacked for saying something about the war, then someone on the other side saying the same thing and not being attacked. For example, right after Murtha recommended withdrawal and was attacked for it, the military itself endorsed a very similar plan, and... not a peep. (http://www.dirtygreek.org/journal/journalId/1621)

Will Bill O'reilly come on tonight and say "if al queda wants to attack the pentagon, we shouldn't stop them?"

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 5:43 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2006 5:42:37 PM

Quote :

"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."

Shit.

Now the dictionaries are all going to need update their definitions of victory.

1/24/2006 5:49:30 PM

It is doable, so many soldiers are in Iraq doing nothing they get fat. If you can't tell who is combat arms back home, you certainly can in Iraq.

1/24/2006 9:09:03 PM

Quote :

"Praise be to God, our conditions are always improving and becoming better, while your conditions are to the contrary of this.... The war in Iraq is raging, and the operations in Afghanistan are on the rise in our favour, praise be to God. The Pentagon figures indicate the rise in the number of your dead and wounded, let alone the huge material losses, and let alone the collapse of the morale of the soldiers there and the increase in the suicide cases among them. "

- osama

1/24/2006 10:05:56 PM

Yet hasn't our government already admitted that a pure military solution is not achievable (unless we use even more ruthless tactics than we are today)? The Pentagon has pretty much admitted this point already, and that is why there has been so much more emphasis being placed upon building up Iraqi military and police forces to reduce the burden on the US military forces in Iraq.

Whether or not we will be able to train up enough troops in time to avoid any serious long term impact to our military is another issue, but this is something that both the White House and the Pentagon are already trying to address, albeit in a rather typically clumsy fashion for this administration.

1/25/2006 10:37:02 AM

Are you asking whether or not he factored in the training of Iraqi forces into his assessment?

1/25/2006 7:13:10 PM