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Old 06-16-2004, 08:58 PM  
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Originally posted by bhutocracy
Those are old figures from before the war or at the start it was a "pledge" figure it's not even a quarter of that.. as of May of this year the total UK troop commitment was 8400. It's still not a token amount though. Even against the US forces of fifteen times that. Most other countries were though.. besides one or two stand outs at the couple or several thousand level it's a hodge podge of 100 troops here, 200 de-miners there, 100 police here..

The US is currently making a big deal about Austarlia withdrawng it's current 250 troops from air traffic ontrol and other non-action duties as if the Iraqi's would miss 250 aussies helping out the US in contracter roles.
250 professionals can very well be missed and I assume they are professionals. Let me give you a factual senario...a 12 man Army Special Forces team...is qualified to train...and command 800 local combat personell. So you can see that to replace 250 Army Special Forces personell could reduce your force multiplier by 16,000 combatants.
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