LTC P over at OpFor has a rant up about the complaints that A-Stan has been under-resourced. He's not saying it hasn't, he's saying, well he says it fine himself. What other enduring campaigns in history have been under-resourced? There's the Pacific Theater in WW2-- by definition under-resourced versus the European Theater. That didn't stop MacArthur and Nimitz from doing the best with what they had. Let's see, who else... Oh yeah. The China-Burma-India Theater. VASTLY under-resourced versus the Pacific Theater. That certainly didn't stop Slim; he did with what he had, and he won. And the XIVth Army prided itself on that. When the CBI Theater did get a heap of men and equipment, it went mostly to the Chindits. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do the right thing and send the troops needed, but it does point out that we have precious little to show for 8 years in the Stan.
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Oct 13 2009, 12:46 AM
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