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  • The Debate over military ground forces endstrength levels

    Here's testimony from yesterday's Senate Armed Services Committeee meeting.

    Hearing Schedule

    There will be a meeting of the Committee on

    ARMED SERVICES

    Tuesday, April 17, 2007

    9:30 AM

    Room SD-106, Dirksen Senate Office Building

    OPEN

    To receive testimony on whether the Army and Marine Corps are properly sized, organized, and equipped to respond to the most likely missions over the next two decades while retaining adequate capability to respond to all contingencies along the spectrum of combat.

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    Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
    President
    Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

    General Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)
    President
    BR McCaffrey Associates LLC

    Dr. Lawrence J. Korb
    Senior Fellow
    Center for American Progress

    Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., USA (Ret.)
    President
    Colgen, Inc.
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    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

  • #2
    One of the more pointed comments so far is from the testimony of GEN McCaffrey, someone who never minces his words:

    However, the purpose of my testimony is not to talk about the ongoing tactical operations in CENTCOM – but instead the disastrous state of America's ground combat forces. Congress has been missing-in-action during the past several years while undebated and misguided strategies were implemented by former Secretary Rumsfeld and his team of arrogant and inexperienced civilian associates in the Pentagon. They have gotten us in a terrible strategic position of vulnerability. The Army is starting to crack under the strain of lack of resources, lack of political support and leadership from both the Administration and this Congress, and isolation from the American people who have now walked away from the war.
    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

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    • #3
      I wish we had such a system.

      But then would we been like the General?

      Great testimony!


      "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

      I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

      HAKUNA MATATA

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      • #4
        Wow, Korb didn't mince his words a bit either. I read them all, and all I can say is the media is going to have a field day with this. They really bashed the Bush administration good on this one.

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        • #5
          I feel real bad about Bush's plight.

          He wanted to do good, but then................

          Life can take weird turns.

          Ideas were good, but it did not get translated well!

          Sad.


          "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

          I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

          HAKUNA MATATA

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Ray View Post
            I feel real bad about Bush's plight.

            He wanted to do good, but then................

            Life can take weird turns.

            Ideas were good, but it did not get translated well!

            Sad.
            Pssst !....it's called bad public/foreign relations. ;)

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