So correct!
These stockpiles of vehicles and munitions are our response to the reality that, unlike in WW I or WW II, the bad guys just won’t hang around for us to get our act together and ship enough munitions over to whup ‘em.
It took, ten to twelve weeks to gear up for Desert Storm? Modern warfare take lots of weapons and systems, and lots of weapons systems means shipping across the Atlantic or the Pacific. And shipping takes time and coordination.
Do our lefties think that Iran, Russia or China will just hang around making speeches for a few months until we finally get the logistics in place to blow them up?
Nope, making speeches is the job of our current Pentagon and Congress.
Those of us who did Regorgers and knew about the vast amounts of equipment prepositioned in Europe thought this was common knowledge.
JUST ADD SOLDIERS: ARMY PREPOSITIONED
STOCKS AND AGILE FORCE PROJECTION
Since its establishment in the early 1960s, the Army’s Prepositioning Strategy and Prepositioning of Materiel Configured in Unit Sets (POMCUS), today known as
Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS), has evolved from its initial focus of defending Western Europe from a Soviet invasion to a global power projection strategy.
During the Berlin crisis, the Commander in Chief Europe (CINCEUR) Gen. Lauris Norstad, USAF and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) recognized a serious strategic flaw: the inability of the United States to rapidly and quickly deploy forces to Europe. In response to this concern, they agreed to preposition organizational equipment for two
divisions to facilitate the rapid deployment of Soldiers from CONUS to Europe.
When the 3rd ID(M) started arriving in-theater on 6 January 2003, the division collected its equipment from Camp Doha and Camp Arifjan, including 252 Abrams, 325 Bradleys, 18 MLRS, and 56 M88s. The 3rd ID was above 90 percent supplied when it began the attack on Baghdad, including 218 of 259 Unit Identification Code sets (UICs). Collectively, for OIF, APS issued 218 APS UIC sets; 17,655 pieces of rolling stock;
124,400 sets, kits, and outfits; 119,194 medical supply class VIII items; 482,993 repair parts; and 5,986 containers.