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Originally posted by Spanky
How many soliders did we use in Gulf War I.
As I said, these countries don't even have armies. And when they do send them they are useless. In Afghanistan most NATO countries won't let their troops go to the south because it is too dangerous.
If the number of troops was the mistake, what would be wrong with bulding up our troop strenght to 500,000 in Iraq now? Leave a skeleton crew every where in the world (including the United States) except for Korea and Afghanistan?
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Over 500,000 were actively deployed in Gulf I, in addition to over 100,000 each being deployed by Turkey and Iran on their borders (but not attacking). Franks 500,000 didn't come out of thin air. His argument was, last time with 500,000 we didn't feel we were in a position to take Baghdad and effectively police the country, but all the stuff Rumsfeld is citing about increased efficiency means we might be able to do twice the job with the same number of boots. But he didn't think we could do twice the job with less than 1/3 the number of boots.
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