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Study: Army Stretched to Breaking Point By Robert Burns, AP Military Writer Tuesday, January 24, 2006 (01-24) 20:04 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon's decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended. POINTER http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/24/national/w133017S88.DTL ----- / o o \ ====OO=====OO================================ Hank Roth's Place - http://pnews.org/ ============================================= Fightback - Notification/Pointer list sub/unsub at: http://pnews.org/dada/ ============================================= Fightback - OPEN discussion - (subscribe or unsubscribe) in subject line to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================= EXCHANGE LINKS: Increase Link Rankings Archives - http://pnews.org/archives/ ============================================== http://up-yours.us - http://inyourface.info ============================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://g0lem.net/ ==============================================
