U.S. Army's Future: More Missions, Less Money

Wake Up And Adapt, Incoming War College Chief Tells Army -- Aol Defense

More missions, less money: That's the dilemma the U.S. Army faces as it looks beyond Afghanistan. The service is certainly grateful that the all-consuming commitments of the last decade are finally winding down, but it's still struggling to shift gears on a shrinking budget. After ten years of optimizing itself for protracted counterinsurgency – a mission explicitly disavowed by the Administration's new strategic guidance – the Army has to relearn how to do a wide range of missions all around the world, from advisor work to disaster relief to all-out combat against adversaries like Iran. With limited resources of money, manpower, and training time, there's a big debate within the Army over how to prioritize. The intellectual storm center in this debate is the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where the service trains its next generation of generals.

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My Comment: I understand the concept that you go to war with the resources that you have .... but if your resources are limited .... I also do understand that greater casualties and missions that were not difficult become difficult will then become the rule .... and adapting to that is not going to be easy.