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Generals Worry Army, Marines Unready For A New War

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Channel: Healing Frequencies · 2016 · Entertainment

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Generals Worry Army, Marines Unready For A New War.

Top Army and Marine Corps generals warned lawmakers their combat readiness is ebbing and expressed concern they would be unable to fight and win another war in the midst of budget cuts, two wars and heightened global threats.

Gen. Robert Neller, the Marine commandant, said his service is supplying trained and ready troops to regional combatant commanders but would be hard-pressed to rapidly respond to another major crisis — a significant statement as the US stares down threats from an aggressive Russia, a rising China, a belligerent North Korea and an extremist-sponsoring Iran.

“Our ability to meet other regional requirements for major contingency plans, we would be able to do that, but we probably would not be able to do that in the time frame that the current plans call for us to arrive to participate in that conflict,” Neller told the House Armed Services Committee.

The Marines would "surge" in such a fight, Neller said, and "provide the best, ready force that we can because that’s what you expect from your Marine Corps."
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/03/16/army-marines-readiness-war-congress/81876210/

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