Prometheus 6

That IS the net meaning here. Pull out five brigades by Christmas or it breaks...but we can't pull out those brigades by Christmas...ipso facto, the Army will be broken.

“That’s how to break the Army is to keep it deployed above the rate at which it can be sustained,” he said. “There’s no free lunch here. The Army and the Marine Corps and Special Operations Command are too small and badly resourced to carry out this national security strategy.”

General: Cut Iraq strength by one-third
By Gina Cavallaro
Staff writer

The U.S. would have to slash combat forces in Iraq to 10 brigades by Christmas to keep the Army from breaking, said retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey. See McCaffrey’s GWOT presentation.