Quote Originally Posted by J Wolfsberger View Post
Until we have that discussion, and answer the questions above, our entire defense structure, military, civil service and contractors, is going to be the random result political gamesmanship.
I submit that your excellent and well informed questions may be irrelevant.

a.) You can't tell the future.
b.) The biggest constraint on the US Army is the mind set of it's senior officers, whom history has not been kind to, and with some good evidence.
c.) It's not about what your forces should look like. It's about what they can do for the money and the manpower.

It like house keeping. No one works out what they need. You work with what you can afford. Military capability generally informs policy. Very rarely does policy inform capability.

That's this Hedgehogs view!