U.S. Army's Modular Redesign: Issues for Congress

By Feickert, Andrew

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Title:	U.S. Army's Modular Redesign: Issues for Congress
Author:	Feickert, Andrew
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Excerpt
Excerpt: The United States Army is undertaking a total organizational redesign of its combat and associated support units in the midst of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) to better meet current and future operational requirements. This redesign effort, as well as associated restructuring and stabilization initiatives, are deemed important by proponents as they are intended to sustain both the active and reserve Army through a potentially long term, manpower and resource intensive war on terror.

Table of Contents
Contents Issues For Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Why Redesign the Army? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 History of Brigade-Sized Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Army’s Objective Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Current State of the Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 How the Army is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Where the Army is Committed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Proposed Modular Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 From Objective Force to Future Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 How the Units Will Be Redesigned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Supporting Units of Action Redesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 What Will the Brigade Units of Action Look Like? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Armored UA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Infantry UA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Stryker Brigade Combat Teams (SBCTs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Capability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Deployability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Lethality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Jointness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Creation of Additional Deployable Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 When Will These Units Be Developed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Current (FY2004) Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 What Additional Manpower Will Be Required? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 What Additional Equipment Will be Required? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Where Will These Units be Located? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Restructuring and Stabilizing the Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Other Critical Army Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Restructuring the Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Stabilizing the Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22