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The Stryker Brigade combat team : rethinking strategic responsiveness and assessing deployment options / Alan Vick ... [and others].

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Vick, Alan.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States. Army--Reorganization.
United States.
United States. Army.
Unified operations (Military science).
United States--Armed Forces--Foreign service.
Airlift, Military--United States.
Airlift, Military.
Military sealift.
Military sealift--United States.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 138 pages : illustrations, maps ; cm
Place of Publication:
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2002.
Summary:
Assesses how rapidly the Army's new medium-weight Stryker Brigade can be deployed by air or sealift from planned bases in the U.S. verus forward bases in key regions.
Contents:
Army Transformation Initiatives 4
Emerging Doctrine 5
The Stryker Brigades 6
The Objective Force 8
Purpose and Organization 10
Chapter 2 Deploying the SBCTs 13
Airlifting the SBCT 15
Available Airlift Fleet 18
Airfield Infrastructure 20
Deployment of the SBCT from Projected Bases 21
Sealifting the SBCT 28
Sealift Assets Considered 30
Calculating Sealift Deployment Time 31
Outside Harbor Unload Operations 33
Shallow-Draft Sealift 38
Road March 41
Deployment Times 42
Representative Scenarios 42
Airlift Deployment Analysis 46
Sealift Deployment Analysis 50
Airlift Versus Sealift 53
Chapter 3 Decisions to Initiate Operations 57
Missions 57
Stopping Aggressors 58
Conducting Contingency Operations 59
Conducting Enforcement Operations 60
Conducting Counterterrorism Operations 61
Warning 62
Concern 64
Urgent Danger 65
Precipitating Events 65
Timelines for Selected Operations 66
The Crisis Decisionmaking Process 70
Exploring Alternatives 71
Threats to Important U.S. Interests 71
Risks of U.S. Casualties 72
Historical Response Times 74
Chapter 4 Regions of Interest 79
Discerning Patterns of Interest 81
U.S. Operations Since 1945 82
Areas of Current Crises and Conflicts 83
The War on Terrorism 83
Terrorism: Looking to the Future 90
Regions of Interest 90
Central America and the Caribbean 92
Europe 95
Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa 100
Middle East and Southwest Asia 103
East Asia and the Pacific Rim 106
Recommendations for the USAF 117
A. Depth of U.S. Operations 119.
Notes:
"MR-1606."--p. [4] of cover.
"Prepared for the United States Air Force."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-138).
ISBN:
0833032682
OCLC:
50645864

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