Strykers are not panacea!

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	• The Stryker Brigade Combat Team: Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options Alan Vick RAND Corporation, 2003 - 124 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Strykers are not panacea!

It is hard to believe that an analyst can pack so much detailed information in such a few pages, but this book is a real gem for the serious reader of military matters who wants to formulate a realistic view of the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams doctrine. The calculations regarding the current ability of the US Army to transport SBCTs around the world are exhaustive and revealing and one gets a fine sense of how complicated are the tasks of the American war planners. Time, distances, port and airport capacities, weights and aircraft lifting capacities are examined against realistic scenarios of war crises around the globe. The US Army should think a lot more about the need to transform more than six brigades to SBCTs. Heavy forces are still very important (and I think that they will remain so in the next decades) and the airlift is not the strategic panacea of the 21st century.

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Examines alternative means to decrease the deployment time for the new Army medium-weight brigade, comparing air and sealift from the United States with air and fast (but short-range) sealift from forward bases or preposition sites. Historical experience and an assessment of U.S. regional interests are used to determine how much warning time the United States typically has before major force deployments and where it is most likely to deploy such forces