PPT Slide
- This means that the U.S. Army need not wait for the arrival of new platforms and technologies (FCS) to transform itself into a more agile and deployable member of the joint warfighting team.
- When one aircraft can deliver hundreds of JDAM 82s (500 lbs. INS/GPS guided bombs) to any point on the earth from stand-off ranges, the opportunity to exploit this advantage for DECISIVE MANEUVER should not be missed. Technologies applied to existing platforms to facilitate this dramatic improvement are here now.
- However, like special operations forces, conventional land forces need a new, inherently joint and flatter organization for combat - new joint operational architecture!
- XVIII Airborne Corps 18-hour ready forces combined with marine expeditionary units can provide the spearheads for this transformation.