Fort Stewart to increase its deploying units by 66 percent

Army News Service ^ | Jan. 21, 2004 | Sgt. 1st Class Marcia Triggs

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Lol...on the other hand...

....this guy came up with a few new tricks and put them into practice pretty effectively:

8 3ID artillery NCO wins Gruber Award

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[Cannoneer No. 4]

Most folks haven't heard of the PENTOMIC Division. If they had, we probably wouldn't be trying to reinvent this wheel. The ROAD structure worked just fine last spring, when we still wanted to kill people and break things.
The laws of physics and the blivet principle dictate that you can divvy up a division worth of 30 pounds of horse manure into three 10-lb brigade bags or five 6-lb battle group bags, but in the end you still only have 30 pounds of it.

[colorado tanker]

What seems to be driving this is the obsession with rapid deployment - the same reason they want to ditch the M-1 and Bradley for the Future Combat System. I wish they'd work as hard at upgrading our lift capabilities as they are at changing the best army in the world.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Objective Force Echelonment

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The US Army is getting out of the business of preparing to engage and defeat other armies. Conventional major theater war is no longer seriously considered.

Nation-states and their armies are now seen as less likely adversaries than irregulars, terrorists, war lords and pirates.

The Army is poorly positioned to prosper in a world in which no other armies exist which can challenge it in conventional combat. They are scrambling for relevance in a future of Fourth Generation Warfare, Asymmetric Warfare and operations other than war

[colorado tanker]

I heard the same thing after Kosovo - no more conventional wars, we're only going to have OOTW. Gen. Zinni was pushing that hard. Then we had to fight a conventional, mechanized war in Iraq. Seems to me Iraq proves we need to be capable of both. There are still potential opponents out there who have large conventional armies, like North Korea and China. We may need the conventional force if diplomacy fails with Iran or Syria. Or, what if a future Russian government turns aggressor with dreams of a renewed Russian empire?