(warning this post is a train of thought and random rambling post, grammar went on holiday and sentence structure went out behind the privy with a gun and never returned)
I really don't think we're as over strength as people think, we have what amounts to about 11 Regiments of Mechs, the same number of Vehicles Regiments, ASF Regiments, and half as many BA Regiments, if you took out the tech advantage, a Cluster is just a reinforced Battalion of Mechs, (45 vs Battalions 36 or 40 with a command lance), a short Battalion of Vehicles (30 to a battalions 36) and short Wing of ASF (again 30 vs 36) and a short company of BA (50 vs 64) or a short company plus a battalion if it's a Trinary of BA (75 vs 80),
The only way we should be fighting Regiments is with Galaxies, and we have as many of those in total as the Combine has (in 3145) just on our boarder, granted Clan forces are more organized along an RCT model just more SLDF Independent Regiment like, so SLDF RCTs... and the DCMS should be bringing support units to bump up their standard Regiments (Ashigaru units), let us have a proper war before we replay the 3rd SW again for the third or fourth time, I've forgotten how many times TPTB have tried to reset it to the constant boring stalemate of military actions doing and meaning next to nothing, ok it might not be that, but the last time we did this, it was oh the RotS era and all but what 5 worlds we took in a war we had to give back?, which does raise a point with DD, the people of Combine decent, they didn't go back to the Combine when given the chance, it's canonical that the RasDom is better than the Combine :P (to some people, in universe) and gives more weight to their arguments in the Vote, "What I have is better than there, but it's not perfect, maybe they (the 3rd SL) can make it better", just wish we had more info before hand about stuff going on, yeah i know faction books don't sell well, but they can add so much to a faction that wont fit a conflict based book, and really useful for the TTRPG side, that seems to have been forgotten about.