Don't waste time in Europe

WIRE: U.S. drawdown in Europe may be too much, UPI, May 17, 2007

No offense to Craddock, but he's not doing his job right if we can't draw down from 100k to 60k in a Europe that sees no war and had no conventional threats. If it takes more than 60k to do theater security cooperation, then we're wasting our time there, because there's only so much effort we should be making for payoff in return, and if it takes more than 60k to get the Europeans up to snuff, we should spend our time and money and people elsewhere, where we can make a bigger difference and access a greater number of troops able to work with us inside the Gap.

Comments

[Charles Sheehan-Miles]

A hundred thousand troops would do a lot more good in Iraq right now than in Europe, that's for sure.

Craddock was my battalion commander in the 91 Gulf War, and I generally like his approach to things, but this strikes me as more parochial than anything else.

[Anonymous]

yeah, this strikes me as more ass-covering than anything else. so that, if something goes wrong with only 60k, he can see, 'see, i told you...'

with that and Moseley saying the USAF needs more money and control every chance he gets. sheesh