If we’re going to pull the troops out, why do we need more of them?
2) We need more troops to reduce the duration of a rotation. This allows greater time to reconstitute the units back that are not on rotation.
3) Looking forward, it looks like we will need to put more troops in Afghanistan, possibly Iraq as the surge strategy appears to be working.
4) It also looks like we are on a confrontation path with Iran.
Lets not get caught flat footed like we did after Clinton’s so called “peace dividend”