The Stryker Brigade Combat Team: Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options [Paperback]

Alan Vick (Author), Bruce Pirnie (Author), David Orletsky (Author), Seth Jones (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0833032682 | ISBN-13: 978-0833032683 | Publication Date: December 24, 2002 | Edition: 1

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.

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Assesses how rapidly the Army's new medium-weight Stryker Brigade can be deployed by air or sealift from planned bases in the United States versus forward bases in key regions and, using an analysis of historical experience and U.S. interests, explores how rapidly large U.S. forces need to deploy and what regions they are most likely to deploy to.

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Alan J. Vick (Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Irvine) is a social scientist at Rand, Washington, DC. David T. Orletsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SM, Aeronautics and Astronautics) is an associate engineer, at Rand, Washington, DC. His research interests include Chinese defense modernization; command and control sensor, weapon and communication technology; and USAF operational analysis. Bruce R. Pirnie (Ph. D., Modern History, RupprechtKarl University, Heidelberg, Germany) is a senior analyst at Rand, Washington, D.C. Research areas include modeling and special operations forces.

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Rand Publishing; 1 edition (December 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833032682
• ISBN-13: 978-0833032683
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,984,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strykers are not panacea!, September 3, 2004

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This review is from: The Stryker Brigade Combat Team: Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options (Paperback)

It is hard to believe that an analyst can pack so much detailed information in such a few pages, but this book is a real gem for the serious reader of military matters who wants to formulate a realistic view of the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams doctrine. The calculations regarding the current ability of the US Army to transport SBCTs around the world are exhaustive and revealing and one gets a fine sense of how complicated are the tasks of the American war planners. Time, distances, port and airport capacities, weights and aircraft lifting capacities are examined against realistic scenarios of war crises around the globe. The US Army should think a lot more about the need to transform more than six brigades to SBCTs. Heavy forces are still very important (and I think that they will remain so in the next decades) and the airlift is not the strategic panacea of the 21st century.