Re: "On the military side, we see a real problem"

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

and the US troops have had a fight with its own American mercenaries
(the Zapata folks).
JD 

On 6/13/05, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Harvey:
> On the military side, we see a real problem. What we see is that
> technologically, the U.S. can dominate almost anything now from 30,000 feet
> up. But if you are into occupying a place like Iraq on the ground,
> dominating the world from 30,000 feet up with high technology is just not
> going to work. You need massive ground forces. Already, the United States
> is running out of forces to keep on the ground. It's trying to construct,
> in effect, a mercenary force by paying for Polish troops to be there,
> paying for twenty people to be there from Lithuania, or Estonia, or
> wherever. It's trying to construct almost a mercenary army because it
> doesn't have, as it were, the military power on the ground. What we're
> seeing is an overstretching of military manpower right now, which is a
> crucial problem that can't be resolved by this tremendous emphasis upon
> technological advantage.
> 
> full: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Harvey/harvey-con4.html
> 
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