McCaffrey - 'defense strategy' unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded

[Barrett808]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

McCaffrey - 'defense strategy' unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007

One of America’s more thoughtful military strategists, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a veteran of ground combat in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, says that our “defense strategy is unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded.”

McCaffrey made his comments and recommendations in a six-page analysis addressed to professors at West Point, where he's an adjunct professor of international relations.

For someone who spent his entire career in Army green, from West Point to four stars, McCaffrey found that U.S. defense modernization dollars and manpower resources are being poured into a rat-hole, or as he put it, “the ground combat meat-grinder,” of the war in Iraq at the rate of $12 billion a month.

What’s being sacrificed, the general wrote, is future control of the vital air and sea-lanes and operational maneuver areas surrounding regional Pacific allies such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as the Alaskan sea frontier.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/20599.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Oh man.

Another blee3ding heart liberal Bush hater. :sarcasm:

I cannot wait to see this on LiveLeak and see what the frothers say. A little while back, Sanchez was bitter, deluded, you name it, over there.

[MadMaddie]

2. See Kids a little book learning, respect for experienced

military strategist, experts in the various and just plain common sense


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What’s being sacrificed, the general wrote, is future control of the vital air and sea-lanes and operational maneuver areas surrounding regional Pacific allies such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as the Alaskan sea frontier.
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This group of Necons thought that by going into Iraq that it wouldn't impact the world or or the US military strategic standing. Oh well No one could have sseen it coming...:sarcasm: