Is the U.S. Military Too Small?

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Regardless of Japan and Germany having been organized forces the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan requires more troops and there should enough troops available to fufill this mission and invade and occupy Iran if it were nessasery. An invasion of Iran will require a lot of troops with such mountainous terrain and their working together with the North Koreans they could fight for a conventinal war for at least a few months. All those caves and tunnel networks will need to be cleared out by ground pounding infantry which takes away almost all the technological advantages we have over Iran. All the bradleys and abrams in the world can't clear tunnel networks. This type of warfare will cause heavy casualties to the US and then there'd also be the difficult task of occupying captured territory which will require shooters to protect our supply lines and such. The only plus to this over the current war in Iraq is that at least their wont' be much foriegn funding of terrorist seeing as Iran is currently funding and training a lot of our problem groups in Iraq.

One problem as many of you have pointed out is with a volunteer army there's no way to get the required troops. There's currently a war going on and any half wit will know that hurts recruiting efforts. So what should be done?

It is not that the military is too small , it is just that the politicians half-baked ideas are too big .

This is one of the reasons armies are needed to go when diplomacy and politics have failed. If more troops had been available for Iraq from the get go I'm sure the situation wouldn't be as bad as it is now. I'd still expect violence and terrorism but at the minimum the insurgents from Syria and Saudi Arabia could be sharply reduced and all those ammo depots that went unguarded with the Iraqi Army was disbanded could have at least been protected form the wholesale looting that happened to them. The Army doesn't decide national policy but it should be fully capable of carrying out whatever is asked of by the President and Congress.