Download or read book Rapid Force Projection Technologies A Quick Look Analysis of Advanced Light Indirect Fire Systems Documented Briefing written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days of U.S. military forces defending a known area of terrain with a large, propositioned force appear to be drawing to a close. In the future, as in the recent past, the U.S. Army will need to deploy to areas of potential or actual conflict. Furthermore, because time is often critical in overseas operations, the United States must have land forces that can deploy quickly both by air and by sea. The RFPT project at RAND concentrates on the airliftable portion of these forces in the early-entry role. RAND DB-168-A/OSD (Steeb et al., 1996) highlights this project and its recent accomplishments.
Download or read book Rapid Force Projection Technologies written by Randall Steeb and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring new technology concepts for light airborne forces.
Download or read book Rapid Force Projection Technologies A Quick Look Analysis of Advanced Light Indirect Fire Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days of U.S. military forces defending a known area of terrain with a large, prepositioned force appear to be drawing to a close. In the future, as in the recent past, the U.S. Army will need to deploy to areas of potential or actual conflict. Furthermore, because time is often critical in overseas operations, the United States must have land forces that can deploy quickly both by air and by sea. The RFPT project at RAND concentrates on the airliftable portion of these forces in the early-entry role. RAND DB-168-A/OSD (Steeb et al., 1996) highlights this project and its recent accomplishments.
Download or read book Rapid Force Projection Technologies written by Constantijn W. A. Panis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapid Force Projection Technologies written by John Matsumura and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documented briefing summarizes research supporting the Rapid Force Protection Initiative (RFPI) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), with the goal of exploring new technology concepts for the ACTD. The focus of this research was on advanced distributed ground sensors--specifically the air-deliverable acoustic sensor (ADAS)--with emphasis on how such sensors might fit into the current RFPI hunter/standoff killer concept. High-resolution simulation was used to examine and quantify many of the key aspects of performance, environmental effects, and military utility.
Download or read book Rapid Force Projection written by Randall Steeb and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using computer simulations, RAND analysts examined, compared, and contrasted new technologies and systems that would allow light forces to better withstand and overcome attacks from larger, more heavily armed forces in varying terrain.
Download or read book The United States Army written by George D. Bennett and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army - Issues, Background, Bibliography
Download or read book The Case for Army XXI Medium Weight Aero Motorized Divisions A Pathway To the Army of 2020 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors contend the mix of extant and near-term combat systems and technologies will allow the Army to create a number of "aero-motorized" divisions within budgetary constraints by the end of the next decade. These medium-weight combat units would exploit the large investment the Air Force is making to modernize its strategic and theater airlift fleets during the first decade of the 21st century. The authors believe that forces equipped with light armored vehicles, next generation combat aviation, and enhanced indirect fire support will provide the Army with a strategic "fist". The authors conclude that this aero-motorized concept will allow the Army to develop doctrine and land forces operations that will have the strategic agility of current light forces and the combat power of current heavy forces - major features of a desired next generation Army.
Download or read book Analysis of Air based Mechanization and Vertical Envelopment Concepts and Technologies written by John Grossman and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document summarizes research conducted in 1998 by the Rand Arroyo Center on an exploration and assessment of the ability to insert mechanzied forces in enemy-controlled terrain.
Download or read book A Guide for Analysis Using Advanced Distributed Simulation ADS written by Thomas Lucas and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to assist those in the vanguard of using Advanced Distributed Simulation (ADS) for analysis. The report discusses a broad range of issues critical to successful ADS supported analyses. Major topic areas include potential ADS analysis strengths and weaknesses, the role ADS might play within a broader analysis strategy, experimental design, exercise preparation and management, and post-exercise analysis. Because it is impossible to comprehensively treat all of these subjects, we emphasize the breadth of analysis issues over depth in their coverage with references to more detailed resources. Furthermore, the depth of coverage is highly variable. The greatest detail is provided on the roles of ADS in the analysis process and in experimental design.
Download or read book Analytic Support to the Defense Science Board written by John Matsumura and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documented briefing summarizes a fast-response research effort that directly supported the Defense Science Board Summer Study Task Force on Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority.
Download or read book Assessment of Crusader written by John Matsumura and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research explores the utility of the Crusader system, a next-generation self-propelled howitzer and resupply vehicle, to the future of the U.S. Army, including both the near-term Army XXI and the farther-term Army After Next. Specific questions were asked about Crusader's ability to provide firepower on the future battlefield and to serve as a major technology "carrier" into the Army After Next era. The report answers these questions and addresses other issues that may surface in considering the relative need for a state-of-the-art, self-propelled howitzer in light of other Army interests.
Download or read book Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century written by John Matsumura and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documented briefing describes RAND research that supported the 1998 Defense Science Board (DSB) Summer Study on Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century: Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010. RAND supported the DSB through both exploratory analysis and high-resolution simulation-based analysis; this document only covers the high-resolution work, notably simulation experiments to help explore and assess Joint operational concepts. It builds on related work done by the authors for the DSB effort, Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority (DB-198-A). The current effort draws on outcomes of other DSB studies, discussions with warfighters, and interactions with DSB members, to define a range of different Joint operational concepts that could be applied to a future (2010-2015) notional, high-intensity, quick-reaction scenario. The strengths and weaknesses of
Download or read book The Army After Next written by John Matsumura and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document summarizes our initial year's work on the project Assessing Advanced Concepts and Technologies for the Army After Next (AAN). At the request of TRADOC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Doctrine (DCSDOC), RAND Arroyo Center initiated this project about halfway into FY97. The overall intent of the effort was to provide force-on-force simulation-based analytic support to the AAN initiative and support the series of wargames. The effort involves the use of high-resolution constructive simulation to explore both operational concepts and technology options for the light battle force concept associated with the AAN initiative. One of the key capabilities required of the light battle force is an ability to hide and wait for the right opportunity and then create a virtual ambush, resulting in a shock or disintegration of the enemy. This kind of defeat, to some extent, is contrasted from more traditional attrition in that it greatly compresses the time in which
Download or read book Ground Forces for a Rapidly Employable Joint Task Force written by E. C. Gritton and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a "think piece" about rapidly deployable future ground forces that would be used in time-urgent joint-task-force missions. The authors sketch out what is needed operationally, describe forces responsive to those needs, and discuss the feasibility of achieving such forces-first with near-term systems but new operational concepts, and then, for the longer term, by drawing upon advanced technology.
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swarming the Future of Conflict written by John Arquilla and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to perform military strikes from all directions. It employs a sustainable pulsing of force and/or fire that is directed from both close-in and stand-off positions. It will work best--perhaps it will only work--if it is designed mainly around the deployment of myriad, small, dispersed, networked maneuver units. This calls for an organizational redesign--involving the creation of platoon-like pods joined in company-like clusters--that would keep but retool the most basic military unit structures. It is similar to the corporate redesign principle of flattening, which often removes or redesigns middle layers of management. This has proven successful in the ongoing revolution in business affairs and may prove equally useful in the military realm.
