[Man Who Fights Like Woman]

Originally posted by Felix The Assassin: Also, think and study military strategy, and strategic planning. Without conducting the crayola draw, I will give you some food for thought. 1. After WWII the US remained in Germany. Why?

To put pressure on the Soviets.

2. The Berlin wall came down the Fall of 1989, yet the US is still in Germany!

To continue putting pressure on the Russians.

3. YOU and OTHERS like minded of YOU, might want us out of Iraq, and would say whatever it takes to make President Bush look bad. But, refer to what a strategically placed US controlled "GREEN ZONE" does for a force that could mount a complete heavy offensive attack from said location into a target that is only the next piece of sand up the road!

Well then, it's a good thing he's done so much wrong stuff that we're not liars, isn't it? And it's usually a good idea for previously occupied territory to be pacified, isn't it? I don't think that either Iraq or Afghanistan come even close to being called that.

4. The President called for a few extra units to patrol the border, while the current guys intensify their training of the Iraqis. Congress, NOT President Bush, told the CoS (Chief of Staff) to alert 5 Active Duty Heavy Combat Brigades to step up their deployment time line, and be on the ground NLT!!!!. I do not know any other way to say this, but these 5 Units are not going to be riding in wheeled vehicles looking for an IED, these guys are bringing their "Heavy" equipment with them. They are not activated guardsmen like others here have pointed towards, these are soldiers that are going to be mad, separated from their families again, and will be ready to unload a can of whoop-ass in a matter of moments.

By "mad" do you mean mad at the enemy, or mad at the administration who sent them there and took them away from their families? This is a very important distinction.

Crayola draw segment: A. There are two ways to make an Army mad. 1. Deploy them for months on end into a foreign land and train the hell out of them, then unleash them (1991).

Also known as the "not bad" way.

2. Send them into a hostile environment for 12 month rotations, place the third rotation on the ground and redeploy the strike force early, as in less than 6 months after last rotation, then unleash them (Spring 2007 that criteria will be met)!

This is known as the "Man it sucks to be an officer now, doesn't it?" way.

Tjohnny:

Commissioned in 1994, the Kursk was one of the most fearsome weapons in the modern world, an Oscar-II class submarine designated K-141 that stretched the length of one and a half football fields and towered five stories tall. Designed to destroy aircraft carriers, the Kursk left port in August 2000 armed with eighteen torpedoes and twenty-three SS-N-19 Granit cruise missiles. But something with terribly wrong with one of the torpedoes. At 11:28 a.m. on August 12, an explosion ripped through the bow of the boat, followed by a second, more powerful blast two minutes and fifteen seconds later...

The above was from the book Kremlin Rising. Yes it was a poorly covered disaster made worse by the poor reaction time of the rescue crews. However, it was not an American attack, unless the Americans have somehow developed invisible submarines that give off nothing to be detected by sonar.

Trobertthebard: The mention of nuclear weapons in that article was a worst-case scenario just if you wanted to get really worried about what they could do to our attack fleet. They don't need them to take down carriers.

So, would you define a nuclear testing site as a nuclear power plant? With the centrifuges they have, it would take nearly a century to enrich uranium to the point where it could be called weapons-grade material. It takes much less time to enrich it to be used for power, which they are entitled to.

Again, the question: Where would all these troops come from if we're going to attack Iran? If such a thing were to happen, we would need to take troops from elsewhere, from places which haven't even cooled down yet.

[ 02-11-2007, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: Man Who Fights Like Woman ]