Quote:
Originally Posted by Botnst
There is no deep-water port within what, a thousand miles of Afghanistan? How many trucks per day are required to move 2.8 million pounds/day? Aircraft?
What if we tried to sustain an army the size of what we currently maintain in Iraq? -- which has a deep water port, BTW.
Etc.
B
|
How dare you be so deep.
You illustrated the primary reason the force is much smaller in Afghanistan any why a huge percentage of that force is specialized forces, ie 82nd, 10th Mountain, Ranger, SF ect not only do you get more bang for the buck you get a big bang pound for pound.
I had a discussion with a person that has been in Afghanistan since Oct. 2001 and asked him why we don't build a farm/cattle herd and water system to feed the troops while we are there and when we leave the Afghan citizens will have a sustainable food supply. He said thats a great idea but they did not plan on being there more than 2 years. That hind sight will getch ya every time.