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Originally Posted by Olefin
and no politician trying to score political points says "screw the citizens of CA, AZ, NM, LA, OK and TX - we got better things to do in Yugoslavia"
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While I do have serious problems with the "Why", I can actually see how a naive president could be convinced of this. Yugoslavia is the ONLY place where CIVGOV has any true foreign presence (CIA outposts aside). I can see where someone feels supporting this is important (perhaps they feel success will allow them, and not MILGOV, to negotiate the end of the war with the Soviets or to pickup defections overseas at the same rate they did at home). Colossally stupid yes, but at least stupid with a motivation.
The "How" is more of a mystery to me. Getting reinforcements past two enemy nations into very restricted waters, with at most a tiny fraction of what ever US assets are in the region seems like suicide. Not to mention the myriad of societal and logistical issues that you would see when trying to strip the US east coast of that volume of troops post TDM.