Sake White

Read this to understand why America has the best, most lethal, and most highly trained military not only in the world, but in the history of the world. Bold is my emphasis.

India doesn’t have to worry about facing M-1s. The main enemy is Pakistan, which has T-72s, a few T-80s and many older T-55s (the Chinese version.) Training remains a problem for the Indian army, because of rising fuel costs. Again, it’s all relative, for the Pakistanis are even less able to pay for the vast quantities of fuel needed to move a tank around for training. Currently, fuel alone costs the Indian army about a dollar per kilometer traveled by each for T-72, and a little more for T-90s. So if you want to take a hundred T-72s out for several days of training, each vehicle is going to travel, say, 200 kilometers. That’s $20,000 just for the fuel. Do that four times a year, for the entire 3,000 tank force, and you’re out $2.5 million. That’s for minimal training, and many countries cannot afford even that. You can more than double the fuel cost to take care of replacement parts and repairs for accidents. American armored vehicles cost from $15-$25 per kilometer to operate, largely because of higher personnel costs.

By the way, this war is global, but because the media doesn’t report on it, the terroists lose their propaganda advantage here.

December 4, 2006: Another 2,000 marines are being sent to Jolo Island, where 6,000 troops are already trying to capture several hundred Abu Sayyaf terrorists. The Islamic rebels have been hiding from the troops for four months, although there abundant signs (from captured documents and people) that the Abu Sayyaf members are feeling the strain. The additional marines, it is hoped, will make it possible to finish the job. So far, twenty troops and fifty rebels have died.