Sir,
These 10o nuc weapons storage would be destroyed in their storage lots----the u s knows that pak needs 4---8 hours to load, assemble and program the nucs----that is all the time to disengage them----.
As for the pak navy and air force----it would seem that they never existed----. I guess I misunderstood that you pleople might understand the term logarithmic responce---now I realize it is not in your knowledge to make anything out of it----. These forces might delay the inevitable by another 24 to 48 hours.
Just deal with Davis for a few days more and then let him go---.
My My... Mastan Bahi, you need to start writing novels, seriously your dramatic enough to become the next Tom Clancy... In all honesty do you feel that America would strike Pakistan over RD?
Secondly and i don't want to play the Devil's Advocate but do you really think that Pakistan will just sit there and roll over belly up in the response to a coordinated US Strike?
Consider the following:
The U.S. Army’s preparedness for war has eroded to levels not witnessed by our country in decades. As deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan continue unabated, there is a very real prospect that Army readiness will continue to erode, undermining its ability to meet the theater commanders’ needs and foreclosing any option for the U.S. to respond to conflicts elsewhere around the globe. The degradation of Army readiness is primarily a function of unanticipated high troop deployment levels to Iraq, chronic equipment and personnel shortages, funding constraints, and Pentagon civilian mismanagement.
1. The Army currently has 39 active-duty combat brigades, as it builds to a total of 42 under the restructuring plan known as “modularity.” Over the coming months, roughly 19.5 combat brigades will be committed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Army doctrine calls for 2 units to be held in reserve (for rest and training) for every unit deployed. As of today, the Army has only one unit in reserve for every unit deployed –
a ratio that history shows cannot be sustained for any length of time without serious adverse consequences to the force.
2. Moreover, the Army’s Force Generation Model calls for a three-year cycle in which Army active-duty units would deploy for one-year, return and reset over another year, and train and prepare for deployment over the third year. Given current deployment rates and the insufficient number of Army combat brigades,
the Army model is conceptually sound but in practice remains little more than a figment of the Army’s imagination.
3. In fact it’s quite likely that Army combat units preparing for the next rotation (07-09) will be “short-cycled”; that is, units will be forced to return to battle with less than one year’s time to recuperate, reset, and train. For example, the 3rd brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division returned from Iraq in February of this year. Prior to the last deployment it had a 16-month preparation period. The brigade now expects to receive its “prepare to deploy” orders within roughly the next 3 months,
which would force the brigade to curtail training and eliminate leave for its soldiers.
4. The Army’s ability to meet CS/CSS unit requirements is constrained by the lack of Guard and Reserve soldiers available to meet future missions.
Of the 341,000 Army National Guard soldiers in uniform, only roughly
50,000 remain available for mobilization. For the Army Reserve,
only about 56,000 of the 190,000 in uniform are available. Thus, Army leaders expressed strong concern about the need to re-examine the Administration’s current policy of not extending the reserve mobilization period beyond two years.
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Now consider the assets they need for a conflict of the "GRAND" scale you are proposing and then consider the following:
1. “Since 9/11, we have reset and returned over 1,900 aircraft, over 14,000 track vehicles, almost 111,000 wheeled vehicles, as well as thousands of other items to our operational units,” Schoomaker told the House committee last week. “By the end of this year – fiscal year 2006, which will end in three months – we will have placed approximately 290,000 major items of equipment into reset. Approximately 280,000 major items will remain in theater and will not redeploy to be reset until the drawdown [of U.S. forces in Iraq] is implemented.”
With this week’s missile tests by North Korea and simmering tension surrounding Iran’s potential nuclear weapons capability, national security leaders and analysts are increasingly alarmed about potential obstacles to deploying U.S. troops outside of existing commitments.
Although ground troops bear the greatest brunt of combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, the House memo also notes strains the current operations are having on the Air Force.
“Despite claims that Air Force readiness levels are stable, it must be noted that readiness is at an historic low and the factors associated with current shortfalls will likely fuel a continued decline,” according to the memo.
The service operates many of the Pentagon’s so-called “high-demand/low- density” forces – such as command and control aircraft, combat search and rescue planes, air refuelers, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft – which are used heavily and are in short supply.
– Elaine M. Grossman
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Now add to this the Human Factor: The issues of Combat Stress and Battle Fatigue:
US ARMY Field Manual 22:51 - Definition AR 40-216:
With these poor boys and girls being stuck in theateres in Iraq and Afghanistan, having leaves reduced, having tours extended... Do you feel that is a good thing for the morale of fighting forces....
Do you really think, these "Real MANLY" men you refer to don't suffer attrition, or are they John Rambo, UniSol and Captain America rolled into one?
Now even if you ignore this, consider the following angles :
The Financial Angle:
Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, has said military spending must be cut by up to $15 billion a year and that the US cannot afford to enter into another Afghanistan or Iraq.
The Political Angle:
Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the public now opposed to U.S. involvement there, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey.
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So you see Mastan Bahi, whilst its all too easy to play the scaremonger and present a wonderfully worded write up on how we are the dust beneath the American Boot, the FACTS on the ground present a very different story.
Whilst i enjoy reading your posts, your recent scaremongering is becoming a tad bit much. It is funny that you highlight the strengths of the American's yet leave out the fact that Pakistan has developed second strike capability, and that whilst we are no where as strong conventionally, this "ATTACK" you talk about would be a total disaster for the US, and Washington knows it.
You really underestimate Pakistan, mastan sb... Hum ney ghar me choorian nahi pahen rakhi hain
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