How Will the US Meet Its Committments?

[MichaeltheGreat]

"mercenaries" is soooo last century.

We call them PMCs now (Private Military Companies)

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DanS
We now have some 120,000 troops in Iraq. As I understand it, we have been withdrawing troops slowly over the last couple of months.

There's a lot of loggies, squids and airedales that are sort of ToaB for occupation purposes, and other sorts of REMF's like 1 CAB and MP's and stuff which are useful, so there's a transformation of force, more than a real reduction. We're also thinning some things out, and lowering our density in Indian Country, such as by having only a single brigade of 82 ABD in country. That's not necessarily a good solution either way.

[Sikander]

Increasing the size of the American military might be a good idea, especially while the jobless recovery is still on.