Comments on: How Many Theaters????? http://blackburndigest.com/26/how-many-theaters/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:50:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shannon http://blackburndigest.com/26/how-many-theaters/#comment-20 Shannon Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:20:52 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/26/how-many-theaters/#comment-20 I, too, wonder how thinly the U.S. intends to stretch its military, particularly given that our "modern" wars involve a lot more of our reservists and guard troops -- troops that were, unless I'm misinformed, in part meant to be held "in reserve" for *domestic* crises... oh, things like hurricanes, floods, earthquakes... and, even when deployed to foreign soil to do their part, weren't meant to serve deployments as long as "full-time"/"career" soldiers. That, and really, our track record in both Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't really give me warm fuzzies about any additional conflicts/efforts elsewhere. And it's not the military's fault -- it's their Commander in Chief's. I, too, wonder how thinly the U.S. intends to stretch its military, particularly given that our “modern” wars involve a lot more of our reservists and guard troops — troops that were, unless I’m misinformed, in part meant to be held “in reserve” for *domestic* crises… oh, things like hurricanes, floods, earthquakes… and, even when deployed to foreign soil to do their part, weren’t meant to serve deployments as long as “full-time”/”career” soldiers.

That, and really, our track record in both Iraq and Afghanistan doesn’t really give me warm fuzzies about any additional conflicts/efforts elsewhere. And it’s not the military’s fault — it’s their Commander in Chief’s.

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