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Zitat:Shifts in Pacific Force U.S. Military To Adapt Thinking
New Plans Reflect Reaction To China's Growing Power

By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, September 17, 2005; Page A01

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- A dull-gray B-2 bomber sat poised in a typhoon-proof air-conditioned hangar, its bat wings stretching 172 feet across. The bomb bay was fitted for 80 GPS-guided bombs, at 500 pounds each, that could be delivered to any target in Asia within a few hours.

The hulking stealth aircraft is a symbol of new times in the Pacific.
"Having this airplane in theater sends a message to the world," said Air Force Lt. Col. Tom Bussiere, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., who arrived at Andersen last February with four of the boomerang-shaped strategic warplanes. ...

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Zitat:Although the M1114, armored, version of the hummer gets a lot of publicity because of its popularity among troops in Iraq, the 5.5 ton vehicle has been around for some ten years. Originally intended for peacekeeping operations, it was successfully used in the Balkans during the 1990s. The M1114 was based on a earlier version, that had served in the 1991 campaign in Kuwait. [...] All the armored protection (against 7.62mm machine-guns and rifles, bombs, landmines and nearby bursting shells of up to 155mm) has more than doubled the cost of the M1114 ($140,000 compared to $65,000 for an unarmored model.) Next year, the 4th Infantry Division is going to Iraq with 900 new M1114s, all equipped with new communications gear (the FBCB2 system) that enables them to talk to computers and UAVs, as well as the usual voice comm. [...]

Out of about 1,500 hummers produced a month, 700 are M1114 types (and some variants). This is up from 550 a month last month, and will increase to 1,100 a month by next year. [...]

Zitat:Big Boost to Battlefield Operations


FORT KNOX: While the booming sounds of a 120mm tank main gun firing on Cedar Creek Range were familiar, the type of tank round being fired was very unique.

The 16th Cavalry Regiment provided a live fire demonstration of the first M1028 canister rounds at Fort Knox, Nov. 10. The canister round is the newest 120mm tank main gun ammunition now available to the Armor Force, and has been deployed in the Middle East. ...

Zitat:pharao postete
Das 3. Battalion fällt ja nicht direkt weg, sondern wird in die 4. Brigade eingegliedert, sodass jetzt jede Division 4 statt 3 Brigaden hat.
Insgesamt also nur 1 Battalion weg.
Ausserdem bekommt jetzt jede Division 4 Brigaden, früher hatte die 10th Mountain nur 2 Brigaden.

Zitat:Es gibt derzeit in der US Army eine zurückorientierung auf AdK was vor allem an den Erfahrungen aus OIF liegt als die mit Hummer ausgerüsteten Brigade Recon Teams schwere Probleme hatten.

Zitat:The new "brigade based" structure will replace the current arrangement, designed for the Cold War when the Army was prepared to fight giant set-piece battles on European soil, where the support roles were organized at the division level. It will improve the deployment ratio so that there can be two brigades at home for every one deployed overseas.

Zitat:USA Pays Lockheed $182.8 million for HIMARS and Rockets
Posted 05-Jan-2006 07:25
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Lockheed Martin Corp. in Grand Prairie, TX recently received a pair of different but related contracts. One was for the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), a cut-down, truck-mounted, C-130 transportable version of the M270 Multuiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS). (...)

Zitat:Two Infantry Battalions consisting of three rifle companies and one combat support company each; and a forward support company capable of moving one company by truck. [...]
One Support Battalion consisting of a transport platoon capable of moving almost an entire infantry battalion by truck.

Zitat:Infantry UAs, may be more deployable than the current light infantry brigades or possibly less deployable, depending on the number and types of vehicles and equipment associated with the particular UA configuration.

Zitat:US-Army kann einen weiteren Krieg führen

Der US-Heeresminister Francis Harvey hat in einer Pressekonferenz erklärt, daß die US-Army - trotz der in den Irak und nach Afghanistan entsandten 18 Brigaden - durchaus in der Lage sei, weitere 18 Brigaden für Operationen in Krisengebiete wie zum Beispiel Iran aufzustellen. Wenn US-Präsident Bush es befiehlt, dann sei die Army bereit, einen weiteren Krieg zu führen, sagte Harvey weiter.

Mit der Pressekonferenz wolle er Gerüchten in den Medien entgegentreten, die behaupten, die US-Army sei durch ihre Operationen im Irak und in Afghanistan weit überdehnt und überfordert.

Abschließend sagte er, die US-Army bewältige derzeit große Herausforderungen, aber sie sei zweifellos die vorherrschende Landmacht in der Welt.

Zitat:"US-Army am Rande des Zusammenbruchs"

Die Einsätze im Irak und in Afghanistan belasten das US-Heer so sehr, dass ein "Zusammenbruch" droht. Davor warnt ein pensionierter Offizier in einer Studie für das Pentagon.
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Zitat:HQ Bloat, Combat Loss in US Army's BCT Re-org?
One of the centerpieces of the US Army's transformation plan has been its proposal to break down divisions into something called "Brigade Combat Teams." The idea is that the US would be able to deploy the brigades with minimal support from higher-level HQ, something like the US Marine Corps' pioneering MEUs. [...]
Now some studies prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) on behalf of the Pentagon's Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate make the case that the result will actually be something else: growth of HQ staff at the expense of combat troops, reducing maneuver batalions by 20% while growing headquarters by 11.5%. [...]

Zitat:Study Faults Army Brigade Team Plan
A study prepared for the Defense Department has found an Army plan to reorganize its forces into “brigade combat teams” will reduce net fighting capability rather than strengthen it, contrary to the service's vision. [...]
But to increase brigades without boosting overall manpower of the service, officials say they must strip each brigade of one “maneuver” battalion composed of infantry troops or heavy arms. Army leaders say they can field just two such battalions per brigade, rather than the traditional three, in part because each brigade will also have a reconnaissance battalion for support. The move results in a net loss of 40 maneuver battalions, according to analysts. [...]
Adding a third maneuver battalion to each of the Army's heavy BCTs, for example, “better leverages [brigade] overhead by increasing infantry squads and tanks by 50 percent,” IDA writes. The Army's own “Task Force Modularity studies found a straight line correlation between the number of combat platoons (made up of squads or tanks) and the level of success of the BCT,” according to the organization.

In fact, the same Army study also found that in testing the BCTs in war games, “in most two-battalion cases, commanders traded the reconnaissance potential of some or most of the reconnaissance troops for the flexibility a third maneuver element provides,” according to an IDA briefing. [...]
Still, according to the Army officer interviewed this week, the service “didn't dismiss [the IDA analysis] offhand or embrace it purely as written.” The papers are still under review, this source says. [...]