TRANSFORMING AN ARMY AT WAR DESIGNING THE MODULAR FORCE 19912005 eBook William M Donnelly
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Transforming an Army at War examines the origins of the modular concept, the reasons for undertaking it, and the process for developing modular unit designs. The Army had been exploring the notion of modularity since shortly after the end of the Cold War. Modularity, at its most basic, was the idea for creating a pool of standardized, self-contained units - combat, support, and headquarters - that could plug into (and unplug from) unit formations as needed with minimal augmentation or reorganization. A modular force would greatly improve the Army's ability to configure packages of units tailored for specific missions by the regional combatant commands. This would be the most far-reaching transformation of the operational forces since World War II and the most radical since the Pentomic reorganization of the late 1950s. This account of designing the modular force highlights a critical part of the Army's program to prepare itself for an increasingly turbulent world and illustrates the intellectual and organizational resources the service can call on in that effort.
TRANSFORMING AN ARMY AT WAR DESIGNING THE MODULAR FORCE 19912005 eBook William M Donnelly
Fans of Edward Luttwack's The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire will find Donnelly's history of the U.S. Army's current restructuring fascinating. (Those who do not already find the topic fascinating will admittedly find it tedious.) There's much in what Donnelly chronicles that recalls the transformation of the Roman army from the "high intensity warfare" legion to the smaller, more mobile comitatenses or "fire brigades" of the late empire. This makes Donnelly's account even a little disturbing. It may be chronicling a shift in American grand strategy, largely obscured as an organizational response to the new information technology. To repeat, those not already interested in the topic will find this book obscure. But it is seeded with nuggets. For example, the development of the Heavy Brigade with two rather than three line battalions has been touted as a response to the new precision of field artillery, so that the artillery-recon combine can, in effect, serve as a third line battalion (as reserve, flank protection, etc.) But Donnelly makes clear that the two-battalion heavy brigade was simply a way to generate more heavy brigades from the existing Desert Storm heavy divisions--thus generating a force structure (though he doesn't say so) that may be incapable of high intensity warfare. Assuming no such need for a generation.Product details
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Fans of Edward Luttwack's The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire will find Donnelly's history of the U.S. Army's current restructuring fascinating. (Those who do not already find the topic fascinating will admittedly find it tedious.) There's much in what Donnelly chronicles that recalls the transformation of the Roman army from the "high intensity warfare" legion to the smaller, more mobile comitatenses or "fire brigades" of the late empire. This makes Donnelly's account even a little disturbing. It may be chronicling a shift in American grand strategy, largely obscured as an organizational response to the new information technology. To repeat, those not already interested in the topic will find this book obscure. But it is seeded with nuggets. For example, the development of the Heavy Brigade with two rather than three line battalions has been touted as a response to the new precision of field artillery, so that the artillery-recon combine can, in effect, serve as a third line battalion (as reserve, flank protection, etc.) But Donnelly makes clear that the two-battalion heavy brigade was simply a way to generate more heavy brigades from the existing Desert Storm heavy divisions--thus generating a force structure (though he doesn't say so) that may be incapable of high intensity warfare. Assuming no such need for a generation.
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