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I have a need to play necromancy, as this subject was on my mind again.

Given the recent political discussions about deployment effects on the overall force of the Army between the two presumtive US Presidential candidates. Why is it that we have not worked to increase the size of the land components of the armed forces . . . and what increase that has happened have been smaller then the force really needed.
Whenever the idea of increasing the size of the army is bantered about the counter of having to call up a draft is brought up. I say this is nonsense as we were able to maintan a 20 division volunteer army in the past, with a smaller national population overall. Therefore, we should be able to raise 5 more divisions to bring us to a force strength of 15 divisions if given enough time.
An overall increase of the size of the military would do a lot to remove the strain to the overall force while maintaining presence in both areas of operation within that one theater, if need be.
I am sure there would be tens of thousands of people who wish to become naturalized citizens if they were required to serve a predetermined length of service (10 years?).
It's not like we don't have the trained personnel to bring up these divisions in short order. There are dozens of units in the Army Reserve and National Guard woes original purpose is to train new units from the bottom, up. Its just a matter of bringing them online in an active sense to accomplish the task.