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Face it...military folks would love to have an incredibly large, well paid, well equipped military....capable of fighting several wars at once. The war in Iraq is not making it any smaller or less capable....just the opposite. It is only illustrating how many troops are needed in a protracted occupying action where civilians prevent us from using our advantages. The painful truth is that wars and troops are expensive...and the American people have made it clear that they do not want to spend one more penny....Both Carter and Clinton greatly weakened the military and diverted money to programs which bought them votes. Both Reagan and Bush suffered politically by having to rebuild military capability due to the tremendous cost.
We certainly have enough air and naval assets to fight additional wars concurrently....unfortunately we don't always get to choose which type war we will fight.