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Originally Posted by Rochard
Lies. Lies lies lies lies.
Do the math. Figure out how many men (and women) we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. It sounds like a staggering number.
There's currently less than 100k in Iraq. There is 94k in Afighanistan. So figure like 200k troops total.
Then figure the US Marines, the smallest branch, has some 400k members. Do the math. If we need to deploy two hundred thousand troops into Iran, we can. Not to mention we already have the infrastructure - Iran is surrounded by GASP Iraq and Afghanistan.... And all of our troops there.
Trust me, if we needed to.... We could place millions of troops into another country if given enough time. |
if you want to boil troop deployment statistics down to # of troop deployed compared to total troops, you begin by oversimplifying the statistics. dwell ratios, european deployments, homeland security deployments, deployment time used, cooks, supply chain resources, adminstrative staff,etc are all MAJOR factors. i won't sit here and claim i understand it, but to say it's as simple as you describe is way off.
