Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
Only makes sense to tailor the active force for what it must do and put to be needed strength in the RC; we'll likely have more than adequate time to change the structure if the hybrid war period of insability settles down in ten or twenty years.

So give COL Mansoor an Attaboy from me.

Will tell him.

I still havent stopped thinking about what right should look like.

The whole argument is somewhat academic at the moment anyway. The number of BCT's engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan isn't dropping significantly anytime soon, so there's no slack in the active force to pull any off the line for HIC.

Given that the RC is our "strategic reserve" (morphed into operational reserve today), perhaps we should be training and equipping a Corps of RC for any potential HIC threats.

As I said, still mulling it over.