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You can push a volunteer army as hard as you want, but at some point it will become a conscript army instead, like the British Army in WW1. The US has an unbelievable amount of combat power in reserve, but it is trying to maintain the nature of its volunteer forces while performing challenging, manpower intensive sustained operations. A very challenging task. The ace in the hole that I have seen in the US Army is there is a common appreciation that there is one thing definately worse than a tired Army, and that is a defeated Army.
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