PPT Slide
Moreover, the costly $1 billion 300-Stryker armored car brigades
Shinseki wants are not ready or will ever be in quantity for the
large-scale occupations of countries like Iraq. Without the 100 divisions of
WWII, the enemy is all around and can attack in any direction at any time;
a Non-Linear Battlefield (NLB) where no place is safe for wheeled vehicles
to operate. The Army has to move its Soldiers around in vulnerable
HMMWV and other wheeled trucks to try to maintain nation-state order
on the 4th generation warfare battlefield where the center of gravity is the
loyalty of the people not just defeating an enemy nation-state army.
Casualties mount as enemy road-side bombs easily explode the vulnerable
wheeled vehicles despite computer “situational awareness”.
The enemy does not let us “cherry pick”
when and where battle will occur. It’s the
WWII scout car debacle all over again.
And the 5th war where U.S. troops have
been sent into battle with inferior gear.