Via Hot Air, there’s a big difference between battalions and brigades – a difference apparently lost on Senator Biden and the Obama flunkies who (either wrote the speech, or simply) loaded it into the teleprompter:

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden might be the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but for at least a split second Wednesday, he got confused about some very simple military terminology. Speaking at the Democratic National Convention about Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy judgment, Biden stated that Obama has advocated for two additional battalions in Afghanistan. In fact, Obama called for two extra brigades – a small verbal slip, but a significant numerical one. A brigade is composed of a varying number of battalions. For the GOP, it is sure to be fodder for their efforts to label Biden a gaffe machine.