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Originally Posted by dyna mo
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.
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No, not really. What the fuck do we need European deployments for? To stop the Russians? They are trying to join NATO, not attack it. The administrative stuff, the cooks - well, most of that is outsourced these days, even in a war zone such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
I understand that a large percentage of troops are dedicated to supply and logistics. However, we have two hundred thousand troops in a combat zone and that's only a fraction of the troops we have.