[xzins]

I understand that Rumsfeld and Schoomaker are taking 10 divisions with 3 maneuver brigades each and transforming that Army into an army of 52 "brigade-sized units of action" without increasing force structure?? That sounds like the equivalent of about 17 divisions.

Do each of these have their own aviation, ada, engr, etc. or do those slices have to provide double or triple time with a couple of these brigades?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Mobility and the UA

A Heavy UA consists of a headquarters company, an MI (military Intelligence) Company, a Signal (communications) Company, MP (Military Police) Platoon, two Balanced Combined Arms Battalions (each with two Tank and two Mechanized Infantry companies), a reconnaissance Squadron (battalion), a Field Artillery Battalion, and a Support Battalion.

An “old” division controlled 3 maneuver brigades whereas the new Division (also called a Unit of Employment, or UE) will control up to four maneuver UAs, as well as an Aviation UA, a Strike UA, and probably a Support UA.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Didn't we hear this report as our troops were defeating the enemy (even from within a raging sandstorm) on the way to Baghdad, March 2003?

 

Good comments from informed FReepers - including those who remind us not to underestimate the enemy - though most of us who were awake on 911 do not underestimate the potential destruction from even one misled lost soul, inflamed by hatred in the modern world  (still knowing our military is the best-equipped, best-trained, most versatile, courageous, faithful military in the world - freely fighting on behalf of the most precious gifts in the free world, a more powerful incentive than the hatred and lies motivating our enemies. (^: ).

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From the Army, the DoD - SOD Rumsfeld and a few thousand others directly involved with planning and fighting the war today full-time (who have been very up front with both their plans and their reasoning from very early on):

 http://www.army.mil/thewayahead/foreword.html

 

 

 

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