Maybe I'm a moron, but for what specific situations will we need a larger military force than we do now?
I can think of a number of places we could use the troops if we had them. Even if we merely try to maintain our current commitments we need more troops, adn while more troops in Iraq might not be able to solve the mess there now, they could be of use in Afghanistan. Then there's Somalia, Darfur, and Zimbabwe where it would nice to be able to at least have a credible threat of troop deployments to back up our diplomacy in the midst of humanitarian crises spurred along by tyrants, plus whatever unknown situation we find ourselves wishing we had troops to send in the next decade.
Actually Korea is one place where we probably don't need to worry about more troops right now. When it comes to knocking out massed military formations, out air force is more than capable of doing the job, and if for some reason we try to occupy North Korea, it will be the South Koreans doing that. I can't imagine that there would be much chance for an insurgency to develop in such a circumstance.
