Sorry but I disagree on the offensive part - you are talking about small units now that arent much bigger than present day regiments. They dont have a lot of vehicles so their fuel requirements are a lot less than a full strength division as are their food requirements. And Red Star, Lone Star makes it clear that Texas is doing ok for food production.
And the oil of Red Star, Lone Star would solve MilGov fuel problems, at least for what they would need for retaking most of Texas, quite nicely.
Especially considering the Mexican forces in all of Texas have a total of 12 AFV's and the Soviets have all of 15 tanks left, spread all over southern and eastern Texas. As for manpower 2700 Federales, 2100 Constitucionales, 450 Nationalists and 250 FRMPs and 500 or so marauders with two AFV. The Soviets have another 3000 and thats it.
So you are telling me that MilGov brings home 43000 troops and lets 5400 Mexicans who are fighting each other and a Soviet force of 3000 men who can barely hold onto San Antonio keep Texas and all its oil and other resources? Sorry but if you can bring home 43,000 men even if you have to do it initially with sail transport and coal powered ships you can land a big enough force to take and hold the area around the refinery and the offshore platform. And after that you dont need to worry about oil again at least not for quite a while.
You arent talking about a continent wide offensive here - its take the refinery and the offshore well, hold it and use the gas to expand your foothold. Use the aviation gas to bring back aircraft and now you have the advantage of air power to add to trained troops.
And sure as heck CENTCOM would do it otherwise - two paratroop divisions, two Marine divisions, and a Mech division against what I just described? And the payoff is that MilGov gets to uncap all those oil wells and put them to use with an operating refinery?
You dont bring home men to waste them. You bring them home for a purpose. Otherwise MilGov would have let them sit in Europe - why bring home men you arent going to use and add to your logistics issues.
its not like they were starving in Europe - they had cantonments and were doing ok. In fact thats why several didnt leave.
You bring them back for a reason - otherwise why not just sent them all to the Middle East? 49,000 men sent to CENTCOM would have given them a huge advantage there - they could have destroyed what was left of the Soviets there in a few weeks and told the French to go home as they werent needed.
They only sent 6000 there - thats because the rest they needed at home. And it sure as heck wasnt to just hold the area around Fort Dix and Norfolk - you dont need 43,000 men to do that.
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