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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
- 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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