Study: Army Stretched to Breaking Point

(What if they had a war, and no one came? Perhaps the chickenhawks and sons and daughters of the rich might have to pick up the slack.....OR...maybe they'll just bring the sons and daughters of the po' folks home. Remember the words of "The Donald" as in Rumsfeld "you go to war with the commander in chief you got not with the commander in chief you wish you had. eaprez)

Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.

Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon's decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.

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