After spending a good part of yesterday watching WWII documentaries, I hear Trump say that we can’t fight two wars at the same time. WTF!
During WWII, the Allied forces maintained a holding action in the pacific Theater until the fall of Berlin.
I hear from active duty friends and family that we can no longer fight two wars at the same time, so Donald Trump isn't the only one saying it. Military downsizing by the thousands is continuing - especially in the Army - in 2016, so not only will the diminishment in capability continue (right on Obama's schedule), but all those ex-military who are let go before they reach retirement will be looking for work. . . and probably not at United Technologies/Carrier.
Mr. niteowl77
That was then, this is now. We mobilized over 14 MILLION men during WW2, now we can barely muster 1 million. A good portion of that 1 million are women, and many of the men are raised on “time out” with their stress cards, etc. We’ve grown a lot softer since the WW2 era. During WW 2 we were the arsenal of democracy, now we are a nation of burger flippers, shopping mall clerks, and people with Women’s Study, and African-American Studies degrees.
Our military today is smaller than before WWII
You neglect national will, force numbers, production capability and a lot of other factors. It is not as simple as you imply.
Would you LIKE to fight two wars at the same time? Run for office.
“After spending a good part of yesterday watching WWII documentaries, I hear Trump say that we can’t fight two wars at the same time. WTF!”
It wasn’t a slam on America or her forces, it’s a slam on the Obama administration that has weakened our military strength. The Generals in DC have said as much.
We can't fight two wars with an all volunteer army and all the cuts that have been made. The entire force has to be looked at.
Pick 2 wars that the entire congress would let us fight to win
Especially the democrats if the potus is a republican
Point if fact is we have multiple wars going on right now
Korea and China which is at a stalemate but could go hot within a fortnight
The war against Islam which has multiple fronts but which the U.S. govt won’t even admit who is the enemy
The rivalry with Russia which the neocons are trying to flame into a war using proxies like Turkey and UKraine
The war on narcoterrorism in which Mexico has become a moral wasteland across which millions of poor uneducated illiterate and desperate people are being trafficked into the US to skew our demography
The great global economic war which is looming and in which our fighting force, the U.S. dollar, is getting set to be hammered