IntelTrooper,

I understand what you are saying, however, if you look at Afghanistan, a piece of real estate the size of the southeast US, then look at how many BCTs we have there, it seems reasonable that we can't clear, hold, and build everywhere. Therefore, we need to accept risk in some places, and have a force projection capability to rapidly react to enemy activity in those places.

I agree with you to a point - in an ideal world, we aren't commuting.

In the real world, with a 10 DIV Army, you must have force projection capabilities.