No Spam! wrote:
Mark and Kim Smith wrote:
The Air Force doesn't have enough planes to fly Stryker Force around
the world when it needs to go someplace? Since when did the Air
Force have a shortage of planes?

Since the US has gutted all its Armed Forces by at least 1/3 starting
during the Clinton days,

YOu mean "starting in the first Bush Adminsitration." The Bush
Adminstration's 1990/91 Base Force proposal called for a 20-30% cut in force
structure more or less across the board. True, the Clinton administration's
Bottom-Up Review cuts went deeper, but most of the total cuts had already
been planned under Base Force.

This loks liek an itneresting report on the various defense reviews (base
Force, BUR, and first Quadrennial Defense Review).

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1387/

And I'll point out that the second Bush Adminstration had planned to cut
force levels even further under the second QDR. They were talking about
increased procurement spending (transformation, recapitalization, or
industruial support, depending on your perspective), but not major topline
increases.

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