[Stand-To!] Expeditionary Capabilities - March 2, 2006

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WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
"The Army’s new concept of support is critical to our ability to  
build a campaign-quality force with joint and expeditionary capability."

-The 2006 Army Posture Statement
TODAY'S FOCUS
EXPEDITIONARY CAPABILITIES

What is it? Expeditionary Capabilities provide the Army with the  
ability to rapidly deploy anywhere, at any time, in any environment,  
against any adversary, to accomplish the assigned mission. The new  
strategic context of continuous operations renders obsolete the old  
Army readiness paradigm of “all ready, all the time.” Continuous,  
full-spectrum expeditionary operations are the new reality. The Army  
is developing a process of force generation to provide Combatant  
Commanders and civil authorities with rapidly deployable, employable  
and sustainable force capabilities packages tailored to specific  
mission requirements.

What has the Army done? The Army, in conjunction with the other  
services, must continue to seek improved airlift and sealift  
capabilities that will enable insertion of Brigade Combat Teams in  
austere settings (not relying on Air and Sea Ports of Debarkation),  
with minimal requirement for Reception, Staging, Onward movement and  
Integration. Strategic responsiveness is enhanced through improving  
the ability to deploy rapidly to austere fighting environments, fight  
on arrival throughout the battlespace and sustain operations until  
victorious. These initiatives include:

• Establishing a comprehensive Army Force Generation process to  
provide Combatant Commanders and civil authorities with rapidly  
deployable and employable Army forces.
• Resetting Army prepositioned equipment sets into modular  
configurations.
• Building modular capabilities that improve theater force reception  
and logistics connectivity and distribution capability in the Brigade  
Combat Teams.
• Identifying and improving infrastructure at critical power  
projection installations to support mobilization, demobilization and  
rapid deployment.
• Updating institutional processes to prepare forces for rapid  
deployments and to support forces in sustained expeditionary operations.


For more information on this topic, please go to Addenda J,  
Expeditionary Capabilities http://www.army.mil/aps/06/maindocument/ 
infopapers/02.html
INFORMATION YOU CAN USE
March 8 - The Future of Transatlantic Security Relations, co- 
sponsored by the Army's Eisenhower National Security Series, The Bush  
School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University and the  
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, at the Annenberg  
Presidential Conference Center, College Station Texas. For more  
information: http://bush.tamu.edu/transatlantic/
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