PPT Slide

Mental “Icing”

Physical “Cake”

Why Schoomaker’s Modularity Plan Isn’t Fixing the U.S. Army

Slaps on mental C4ISR gadgets

upon pre-existing physical weakness

4 Light Divisions

6 Heavy Divisions

50% Armored Tracks

100% Vulnerable Trucks

50% Vulnerable Trucks

Costly $3.3M each Stryker diversion for a handful of BDEs doesn’t change pre-existing

physical weaknesses; they are vulnerable trucks, too. Robbing 3rd maneuver BN for a

RSTA SDN to mental gadget firepower target doesn’t fix PHYSICAL weakness of force

NLB threats:

RPGs, RSBs, bullets,

firebombs, snipers killing 900+ Soldiers, seriously wounding 4,000 men

Wheeled Army

getting clobbered in

Iraq/Afghanistan

Strykers

HMMWVs

UPHs