[mattduke]

Everything is perfectly normal.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG819.pdf

[leaflight]

A stability force for the United States and other empires was the middle class, likend unto a military of its own kind, and force and fortress , yet for when the poor get enertia emotional in this era of age shifts?

[Homesteader]

If you read the summary the SPF is for deployment in countries with populations under 20 million.

Basically another way to spread "democracy" at gun point.

[Sixstrings]

Had a brief peak at that PDF, couple items of interest:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t would be even more difficult and resourceintensive
to mount stability operations in larger countries such as Iran,
Pakistan, the Philippines, Nigeria, and Venezuela. Efforts of this size
would require a national commitment beyond what is considered in
this report. However, the maximum-size SPF considered in this report
is based on assumptions about what is affordable. If a larger force was
deemed desirable, some elements of this analysis might change.

[rangerone314]

Would an SPF of 6,000 and a cost of over $600 million be enough to maintain order in a country of over 300,00,000?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'W')ould an SPF of 6,000 and a cost of over $600 million be enough to maintain order in a country of over 300,00,000?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'W')ould an SPF of 6,000 and a cost of over $600 million be enough to maintain order in a country of over 300,00,000?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'C')onsidering the finances of peak oil, and the Federal debt, its all they'd probably ever afford.

[oswald622]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Hm. So what is this then, an effort to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act? Interestingly, the desire to use the Stability Police in the US doesn't appear to be grounded in any necessity for it, but their main concern is just a way to keep their training up in between foreign deployments! They want to use the Stability Police in the US just so they stay sharp with their training.

Basically, what we're seeing here is the birth of a new branch of the armed forces -- potentially, an entirely new military in addition to our conventional forces. From the little bit I read, it appears they want to figure out a way to position this force legally so it can be a "hybrid" for use in the Homeland and abroad.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oswald622', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Hm. So what is this then, an effort to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act? Interestingly, the desire to use the Stability Police in the US doesn't appear to be grounded in any necessity for it, but their main concern is just a way to keep their training up in between foreign deployments! They want to use the Stability Police in the US just so they stay sharp with their training.

Basically, what we're seeing here is the birth of a new branch of the armed forces -- potentially, an entirely new military in addition to our conventional forces. From the little bit I read, it appears they want to figure out a way to position this force legally so it can be a "hybrid" for use in the Homeland and abroad.