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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The US armed forces has always suffered from too much tail and not enough teeth. A lot of this stems from the US experience in World War Two, where the Regular Army was jumped from ten or so divisions up to 90 active divisions, plus hundred of supporting battalions.
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"Always?" IMO, the US is usually caught short in both tail and teeth, and the formation of both takes time. Post-WW2, the planning has been to have enough of both by using the Guard and Reserves. The US is in the position that we need more "tail" than most armies, since American forces almost always have to go somewhere else to fight.