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Noonan,
Hey, cowboy-up there Shipmate! You're in good company - I hit on the same subject in FEB.
I have always thought, along with others, that the USNA and NROTC official bias towards technical degrees was wrong-footed, short sighted, and not creating the intellectual diversity we need. So does Andrew Exum.I got about the same reaction.A former Army officer and Middle East analyst has called on the nation's service academies to trade in their focus on engineering for a more modern curriculum on international relations.Exactly right. We need experts across the field of study. I don't know about you, but my Wardroom is adrift with engineers who have never used their education - but also have never read a great work, cannot find the Spratly Islands, don't understand that "Old Europe" nations like Belgium are younger than the U.S., and do not know the difference between Arab Saudi Arabia and Persian Iran.Andrew Exum, who led combat units in two tours in Afghanistan and one tour in Iraq, said the engineering coursework required at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., is a holdover from the 19th century, when that was the direction of future warfare.
Pakistan has a population of 160 Million.
The stripped down bare minimum occupation force would be 5 soldiers/1000 population.
So we will need 800,000 soldiers for the occupation force.
The entire Army and Marine Corp adds up to 690,000.
Pakistans active duty military is more than 619,000 plus reserves of 500,000.
We can forget about getting "UN" troops to help because the largest contributer of UN Peacekeepers is....wait for it...Pakistan.
Unlike Iraq where we could stage the invasion from land, Pakistan would have to be an amphibous invasion.
IMHO Mr Obama is a complete idiot or under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.
For writing this piece in the Weekly Standard on how the Service Academies may want to tweak their math heavy curriculum, and start offering BAs to their cadets.
Yeesh. I've gotten emails from engineers who liken this to slapping their mothers.
Discussion at OPFOR.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama has a plan.
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.
"Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."
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