Manging the Barbarians

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Not to mention that our national impatience means that long term stability ops are not going to sit well. The 1/3 Rule and the Two Year Rule draw a lot of snickers but I've never seen anyone really refute either. Add to that the facts that we have to be a full spectrum force with multi mission capability, that we are not going to develop an advisory corps, SOF is not likley to undergo an expansion and the Defense budget is going to get whacked and we had better look at a way to use the GPF to max advantage...

Great post, Ken. I remember when expanding SOF was trendy - that appears to have faded amidst the political din to expand the entire AD force. And to what end, exactly? To fight more Iraqs? Which systems will get the chop to pay for it, or we will just disband divisions again ten years from now?