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The inability to get 4ID into combat will speed Army transformation. The lesson of the Iraq campaign is: if you can't preposition M-1s or have access to a modern major port nearby, M-1s and a division built around them are worthless. We'll see Apaches continue to displace the function of the M-1, supplemented by MLRS and airmobile vehicles such as the Strykker.

Man of the Right: Ever since the 1st Gulf War the Army has kept a heavy brigade in Kuwait on 6-month rotations. Camp Doha in Kuwait has a heavy Division's worth of vehicles prepositioned and these are drawn by the rotating brigade when they arrive. The 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade was already in Kuwait during the buildup so the order to deploy the rest of the Division from Ft. Stewart and Ft. Benning was a natural one. All they had to do was fall in on the remaining equipment pre-positioned at Camp Doha and head out to the desert to link up with 2nd Brigade. If it had been a brigde of the 4th I.D. in Kuwait already then it would have been the remainder of this Division going and the 3rd would have been cooling it's heels back home.