Do We Have Enough Troops for the Afghanistan Surge?

[WendellP]

http://washingtonindependent.com/681...ease-potential

If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat deployments since 2002." Ackerman finds "about 50,600 active-duty soldiers, serving in 14 combat brigades, and as many as 24,000 National Guard soldiers available for deployment.

[Talk of New York]

That quote is not true. We are currently withdrawing from Iraq, so as we do so, we escalate in Afghanistan. Most of those soldiers will come from home stations and they will be replaces by the Iraq forces and vice versa. Its a rotation. Thats not to say that people arent tired and stressed from so many deployments.