美国陆军参谋长辛塞奇警告说，尽管有可能用国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德所使用的16万名士兵赢得战争，但是赢得和平却需要两倍的军力。
US Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki warned that although it would be possible to win the war with the 160,000 troops that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used, it would take double that number to win the peace.