Originally Posted by jungle

Very true, and between wars the troops were reduced to wooden rifles, cardboard tanks and running around with their arms held out for airplanes.

But today we have this accordiing to Lehman(who is one of the good guys): "When the Department of Defense was created in 1947, the headquarters staff was limited to 50 billets. Today, 750,000 full time equivalents are on the headquarters staff."

Massive topheaviness in C3 and other functions and always fewer teeth for the tiger.

I doubt we will have another world war on a conventional basis, but instead a continuous collection of wars on small scale and without end.