Problem: U.S. Military not ready for non-linear battlefield (NLB) combat dominated by High Explosives (HE); is not ready to rapidly deploy nor defend U.S. borders

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Problem U.S. Military not ready for non-linear
battlefield (NLB) combat dominated by High
Explosives (HE) is not ready to rapidly deploy
nor defend U.S. borders
Effect to date 1,400 dead from bullets, bombs,
grenades 5,000 maimed for life from same
strategic defeat in Iraq looming because cannot
protect selves much less create societal
security, U.S. Borders open to WMD terror
attacks
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Cause BS Garrison SUV Tent City Mentality
Institutional U.S. military forgot since
Vietnam what NLB was like embraced wide-spread
Humvee SUV use expecting wed pick/chose only
linear wars to fight where itd be safe to get by
in unarmored, unarmed trucks Lives in easily
targeted Civilian Buildings, brass think are CEOs
and junior executives who do not have to work and
get dirty during daily CONUS garrison life during
months leading up to war time OCONUS deployment
Lesser ranks mows lawns, polishes floors and
other busywork to glee of snob egomaniacs focused
on self-advancement not combat readiness Brass
wants to do same when overseas via BiLLONS of
out-sourced civilian buildings in elaborate FOBs
mimicking CONUS garrison life or former dictator
palaces tactically unsound and unwise Doesnt
dress for war each day, spends day in snobby
make-believe spit n polish outward appearances
Static not mobile doesnt want to fight, wastes
time on non-sense Equipment not ready to ship,
brass wants to drag feet, says need masses of
troops in hopes politicians will not deploy
them Time wastage break-bulk tentage into
trucks no protection in combat when erected
Some Narcissists boast all they need is
rubber-tired SUV trucks and live in a poncho
cannot sustain selves in extreme weathers, easily
killed in war
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Breaking the Garrison Phalanx? Colonel Douglas
Macgregor and others propose in books like
Breaking the Phalanx, Transformation under
Fire, Air-Mech-Strike the necessity to
CO-LOCATE desirable elements together for
all-arms effects.. But youll notice all-out,
co-location only happens for the first time when
you are in some wide-open desert during time of
war. Why? Take Fort Bragg. 35th Signal is off
Reilly road behind Burger King. 20th Engineers
are down Gruber road adjacent to them but not in
practical walking distance. Way down the road
is Simmons Army air field where the Army
aviators are. The USAF is in their own fenced
base at Pope AFB adjacent, yes but still miles
away. The 82d Airborne is again miles down
Gruber road....etc. THIS IS NOT
CO-LOCATION! Each is off in their own little
world.
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So even if you got Macgregor/AMS type units
built, AS LONG AS THEY ARE PHYSICALLY NOT
CO-LOCATED SO THE PEOPLE INVOLVED HAVE TO
ACTUALLY LIVE AND TRAIN TOGETHER there will be no
synergism. This is why we must cut the "gordian
knot" of garrison bullshit once and for all! No
more buildings! Get everyone out of these BS
buildings and put them and EVERYTHING THEY OWN
into ISO container Battle Boxes and plop them
down onto a huge piece of training ground where
THEY MUST LIVE AND TRAIN TOGETHER. EVERY DAMN DAY
everyone puts ALL of their combat gear on and
trains instead of Beetle Baily garrison
horseshit. For Army Aviators, no more of their
BS lying excuses why they cannot co-locate when
they have helicopters that can take off and land
vertically (V/TOL). We put their helicopters on
trailers and they damn well better start being
there with the rest of us. If their overly
complex helos need too much pampering, we get
them armored crop-duster fixed-wing aircraft
that can fly 24/7/365 and move by trailers. The
Stukas and Storches of WW2 didn't need pampered
air bases far from the maneuver troops.
Details www.geocities.com/usarmyaviationdigest/
grasshoppersmustreturn.htm
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Solution ISO Container Battle Boxes
(BBs) U.S. Army uniquely has more than enough
ground motor vehicles to deliver hard-shell
boxes to war zones since--it already delivers
same as orphaned vanilla supply carriers--why
not use them as hardened-able battle positions
when emptied and owned by every unit as their
pre-war housing and ready-to-deploy, pre-loaded
re-usable war means and adapt correctly to both
the earth environment and the battlefield
threats? Units can self-deliver their own BBs
using the motor vehicles they already own via
Walkers ANT-ISO trailers.
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Battle Boxes Live same way as you Fight
No more building lawn care mentalities BBs
arranged in defensive perimeter on Army post
Troops drive POVs thru Fortified checkpoints
wearing BDUs each morning to work After
parking POVs, man BBs Stand To! Alert _at_0800
hours weapons mounted on BBs and in hand from
lockers within BBs No standing formations
landline by squads Training occurs until 1600
then troops depart and get full 8 hours
sleep/family life FTXs BBs will be moved and
emplaced in notional FOB on post for
around-the-clock operations
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Civilians live in Buildings Soldiers live
in Battle Boxes!
There is no motor pool unit ground motor
vehicles are in tactical mode around simulated
defensive perimeter or INSIDE BBs in the unit
area climate protected for maintenance and
prevention of decay Soldiers go to war each
day no more garrison BS ALL Go-to-War TA-50,
night vision devices in BBs ready-to-use (they
use it daily) and ready for war no more garrison
BS climate of keeping things locked up in vaults
and discovering them when mobilized for
war hand/eye coordination skills at high levels
from first battles
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Fort-to-Port Move to SPOD or APOD
Static civilian-style buildings only used to
store unit histories, awards, records to
reconstitute with new people if wiped out in
combat BBs as-is driven by unit using organic
vehicles to air or sea port of debarkation
IMMEDIATELY Only things needed will be to draw
ammunition mini- boxes to fit inside BBs, top off
fuel in organic vehicles BBs loaded into
container ships or on top of RO-RO ships Unit
ground motor vehicles roll onto ships or placed
in BBs, too
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Port-to-Port SPOD/APOD to SPOE/APOE
Soldiers parachute jump (airdrop) or airland to
meet up with their air or sea delivered BBs and
ground motor vehicles which should be tracked
Armored Fighting Vehicles (TAFVs) as minimum
armored mobility standard on NLB
Port-to-Foxhole to Assembly Areas Unit drives
everything they own to assembly areas that will
be used to launch attacks into enemy
nation-state NOT an underclass support unit
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Foxhole-to-Foxhole not palaces Assembly Areas
to Nation-State War completion
BBs are dropped off at assembly areas not
unlike how rucksacks are dropped prior to a
attack an enemy. Maneuver units defeat enemy
nation-state in TAFVs via 3D and 2D air-ground
maneuver Upon nation-state war completion,
maneuver units return back across border to AAs
to wait transportation back to USA or
Warfighting sustainment units shuttle their BBs
forward to enable Forward Operating Bases (FOBs)
to be created for an occupation to occur
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Sub-National Conflict
BBs are formed into Forward Operating Bases
(FOBs) to fully climate and enemy protect
Soldiers to enable security operations to occur
Soldiers DO NOT live in former dictator and
civilian buildings that do not belong to them and
not incite wrath of populace to turn against us
B in one-time contractor fees for tactically
vulnerable buildings pays for re-usable BBs good
for next war, and the next, and the next do we
want to do this right or not? Troops in BBs
arranged along Main Supply Routes (MSRs) with
earth-filled wall check points to insure troops
can be resupplied and sustainment units not
ambushed by enemy road/car/truck bombs Minimal
U.S. presence in-country, respond only as needed
by mobile TAFV battle groups as needed by new
government Civilians know U.S. presence is
temporary but not vulnerable fools
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Homeland Defense
There is no more Garrison, Peacetime Army and
a hurriedly thrown together War-time Army.
There is ONLY THE GO-TO-WAR ARMY. Any training
area where Soldiers can operate tracked armored
fighting vehicles x-country and shoot weapons
live fire without any restrictions at all, no
ecological fears as an Army Post. They come to
work dressed for COMBAT, they go home each night
to live real, not quasi-civilian lives. War is
War, civilian life is civilian life, there is no
blurred realities. There is no garrison and no
field every day is in the field with Battle
Boxes getting ready for combat not parade
grounds. The entire Fort Gavin composed of
BBs can deploy itself to say the border areas of
the U.S. and immediately begin patrolling to stop
drug and terrorist crossings the Army is 100
mobile