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Originally posted by Spanky
That is how many we had in the Guld War isn't it? And why rotate them out? We didn't rotate troops out of WWII? We did in vietnam and there shouldn't didn't work out well.
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As I recall,
* They weren't all our troops. Other nations contributed significant numbers of them (cue Slave to declare that they were worthless fuckers anyway).
* We weren't anticipating a multi-year occupation, so I don't think rotation of troops was in the plans.
* Everything I've heard about the rationale for rotating of troops is that you need to do this every X months in order to keep force morale high and for troops to continue operating well. If you want to throw 'em all in and keep 'em there, go for it, but I think you'll need to explain this to the military leadership that seems to consider the process a necessary one.
Gattigap
