GETTING OUT OF THE RED The 1.5 MRC Force

By Keith Yost

STAFF COLUMNIST

In the parlance of military planning, the U.S. wields what one would call a ?two-MRC force.? That is to say, as structured, the armed forces should be able to fight two ?major regional conflicts? (Iraq-sized wars), simultaneously. The logic behind this sizing is simple: should the U.S. choose to fight in one region (say, the Korean peninsula), it doesn?t want to find itself without a free hand in dealing with other regions (say, the Persian gulf). Two MRC?s worth of military might gives the U.S. the strength to conduct big stick diplomacy with troublemakers even while taking action against another rogue state.

Source: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N32/yost.html

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