The Stryker Brigade Combat Team Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options

by Vick, Alan; Orletsky, David; Pirnie, Bruce; Jones, Seth

• ISBN13: 9780833032683
• ISBN10: 0833032682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-19
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Figures	ix
Tables	xi
Summary	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
Acronyms	xxiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Background	2	(2)
Army Transformation Initiatives	4	(6)
Emerging Doctrine	5	(1)
The Stryker Brigades	6	(2)
The Objective Force	8	(2)
Purpose and Organization	10	(3)
Deploying the SBCTs	13	(44)
Airlifting the SBCT	15	(13)
Available Airlift Fleet	18	(2)
Airfield Infrastructure	20	(1)
Deployment of the SBCT from Projected Bases	21	(7)
Sealifting the SBCT	28	(14)
Sealift Assets Considered	30	(1)
Calculating Sealift Deployment Time	31	(2)
Outside Harbor Unload Operations	33	(5)
Shallow-Draft Sealift	38	(3)
Road March	41	(1)
Deployment Times	42	(15)
Representative Scenarios	42	(4)
Airlift Deployment Analysis	46	(4)
Sealift Deployment Analysis	50	(3)
Airlift Versus Sealift	53	(4)
Decisions to Initiate Operations	57	(22)
Missions	57	(5)
Stopping Aggressors	58	(1)
Conducting Contingency Operations	59	(1)
Conducting Enforcement Operations	60	(1)
Conducting Counterterrorism Operations	61	(1)
Timeline	62	(1)
Warning	62	(8)
Concern	64	(1)
Urgent Danger	65	(1)
Precipitating Events	65	(1)
Timelines for Selected Operations	66	(4)
The Crisis Decisionmaking Process	70	(4)
Exploring Alternatives	71	(1)
Threats to Important U.S. Interests	71	(1)
Risks of U.S. Casualties	72	(2)
Historical Response Times	74	(5)
Regions of Interest	79	(36)
Discerning Patterns of Interest	81	(9)
U.S. Operations Since 1945	82	(1)
Areas of Current Crises and Conflicts	83	(1)
The War on Terrorism	83	(7)
Terrorism: Looking to the Future	90	(1)
Regions of Interest	90	(23)
Central America and the Caribbean	92	(3)
Europe	95	(5)
Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa	100	(3)
Middle East and Southwest Asia	103	(3)
East Asia and the Pacific Rim	106	(7)
Summary	113	(2)
Conclusions	115	(12)
Key Findings	115	(2)
Recommendations for the USAF	117	(2)
Appendix
A. Depth of U.S. Operations	119	(4)
B. Components of Deployment Times for All Scenarios from Chapter Two	123	(4)
Bibliography	127