The issue, as always, is that Bill Clinton cut the army from 18 divisions down to 10 divisions. The Army IS the "hold the ground" service, so its numbers must be more than the other services.
Unfortunately for the nation, once they cut that 1/3+ from the defense budget (remember the so-called 'peace dividend'), they proceede to spend it in other areas so that it could never be easily recaptured by DoD.
Now we have Rumsfeld trying to turn 10 divisions and a training/staffing base into additional brigades from the same numbers. This will NOT change the number of deployments these guys would see. Normally, many of them would see a field assignment and then follow that with some kind of training assignment. Since the training assignments are going away, we're simply robbing Peter to pay Paul.
The answer is to cut the budget in other areas, and restore that money to DoD and increase the number of divisions back up to 18....the number LONG RECOGNIZED as necessary for fighting 2 full scale wars simultaneously (which is now obvious.)
Yes, cut Medicare, Medicaid, VA and Social Security benefits. Then the invasion of Iran will be possible. Extra $400B a year will do.