Plans to stay at top

For the past six years the United States has had its armed forces tied up in two wars, one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq. These two wars have stretched man power, we currently have over 170,000 troops in both areas, and resources thin, leaving little to use in any other operations that might come up. The US has been using a strategy that is used for fighting two wars to deal with the operations that are occurring in Afghanistan and Iraq, but top military officials have decided that this strategy of two wars might not be relevant in the 21st century. The Pentagon is now rethinking and revising their strategy to make it more flexible for modern day operations.

Among other questions are the extent to which planning for conflicts should focus primarily on counterinsurgency wars like those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what focus remains on well-equipped conventional adversaries like China and Iran…

The new plan for operations would also try and boost the involvement of other government agency and lower the amount that the DoD has to do. This revision of Americas war plans is much need because it hasn’t help us lately and is too set in conventional warfare, with the use of navies and heavy bombers. Nowadays there are so many international organizations, like the United Nations (UN) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that it would take a lot to cause a conventional war, as in two uniformed armies are fighting, to break out. The only operations that are prevalent today are anti-insurgence, anti-extremist and policing actions that are sanctioned by the UN or NATO. Of course the real reason that the Pentagon is revising the military plan is so that America can stay at the top of the world military echelon, go figure.