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2013-10-19 Home Front: WoT
Army warns it could have trouble handling single war
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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Despite the new debt deal + the Bammer breaking his own "red lines" on the debt ceiling, I see nothing to indicate that China won't prevail agz the Bammer-led USA-Allies in any East Asian mil crisis or conflict over ECS + SCS disputed islands [India?], + despite any initial PLA deficiencies.

POTUS OBAMA's HISTOIRE' IN MIDDLE EAST = ALLEGED US ENEMIES = ANTAGONISTS WILL NOT ONLY SURVIVE BUT IS LIKELY TO EMERGE IN MUCH STRONGER POSITION THAN AS BEGUN.

Beijing at this time would like to remind everyone that it has both LR ICBMS that can strike + destroy CONUS, as well as the vital $$$ bonds US Government = DemoLefties needs to expand the post-Shutdown US Debt Ceiling, partially or in whole; any new QES?, + to expand OWG future Amerika's glorious Welfare-Nanny State - JAPAN, PHILIPINES, ASEAN, + EVEN IRAN DOTH NOT.

BEIJING = JUST SAYIN'.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-10-19 00:44||   2013-10-19 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Just maybe that is Champ's plan.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-19 11:19||   2013-10-19 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 "Just maybe that is Champ's plan."

FTFY, John.
Posted by Barbara 2013-10-19 11:28||   2013-10-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Army warns it could have trouble handling single war

Little wonder when victory failure is no longer an option.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-19 11:45||   2013-10-19 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Purges tend to have that effect.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-10-19 13:44||   2013-10-19 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Can it handle a civil war? Next war might not be outside our borders.
Posted by airandee 2013-10-19 13:45||   2013-10-19 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 So if the forces are reduced, does that mean it really will be 'an Army of one?'
Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-10-19 14:27||   2013-10-19 14:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Money quote from the article:

"If you can't even fight one war, what's the point of having an army?"

Face it, folks...that IS Ogabe's plan.
Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2013-10-19 14:35||   2013-10-19 14:35|| Front Page Top

#9 In a lot of dictatorships, the major function of the army is to handle internal security. We may be headed that way.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-10-19 14:40||   2013-10-19 14:40|| Front Page Top

#10 ..well, except, the largest armed body in the world would be the American public. If you can't control Iraq or Afghanistan without the 'consent' or participation of the locals, how do you think you're going to control 57 states (other than in your mind)?
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-19 15:53||   2013-10-19 15:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Good point P2k, but if things really begin coming apart here, I doubt the ROE will be as restrictive for us as they were in the big suck.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-19 17:11||   2013-10-19 17:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes, civil wars can be nasty. However, you need the intel the locals provide to be effective beyond your immediate foot print. When the nastiness starts, outside of the Party controlled urban areas that's going to be really iffy. Add to the problem is that the urban islands don't have the means to really patrol, even with UAVs every mile of pipeline and rail line that carries the basic necessities to those urban islands. As Richard Fernandez noted over at the Belmont Club, civilization is nine meals away from breakdown.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-19 17:18||   2013-10-19 17:18|| Front Page Top

#13 I doubt the ROE will be as restrictive for us as they were in the big suck.

And our side won't have any ROE either. You fight for the unlawful regime, you die. Period.
Posted by S.A.M. New Delhi Field Office 2013-10-19 22:49||   2013-10-19 22:49|| Front Page Top

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