We need a military of 4-5 million minimum. We need 5-8 million reserves . Current military is shorthanded and tired. We need to have the manpower to have enough troops on 2 or 3 fronts. Lets do it before its too late. President JIF
No way we could afford that Jif, that's a war time levels. We'd have to reopen tons of closed facilites and build even more new ones. Future warfare will not likely be fought by the millions of men who fought in WWII, they will be fought by small mobile forces with high technology.
North Korea has 3 million troops just waiting to drop down into S. Korea. No Hi tech in the world will flush them out with out doing a lot of harm. In Iran ..thats another story..just vaporize the bastards.
We have a high tech military. Problem is, we don't like to use that adavantage, preferring instaed to fight the other guy's style.
3 million men with old Soviet era weaponry, just like Saddams Army. That many men couldn't hide from our air attacks and would be decimated. Because of proximity they however would do a lot of damage to South Korea and Seoul no doubt before the 3 million were reduced to a couple of hundred thousand.
If Saddam did in fact have WMDs the question is why didn't he use them? Would he have used them in desperation? N. Korea is known to have 5-7 nuclear warheads. What would they do against the superior U.S. weaponry? Where does China stand in all of this? Isn't N. Korea more in their side of the world?