Stand-To!- Prepare - March 4, 2008

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Edition: Tue, March 04, 2008
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SENIOR LEADERS ARE SAYING
"We will maintain a sufficient footprint with an adequate, generally  
substantial, Iraqi force of police and soldiers. It provides  
situational awareness and a link to the enablers that we can provide  
– indirect fire, close-air support, medevac, quick-reaction forces  
and so on. Obviously as we draw down, the Iraqis have to pick up more  
of the responsibility, and that is the case."

-Gen. David H. Petraeus, describing the way ahead in Iraq

Gen. Petraeus Describes Factors Affecting Iraq Assessment
TODAY'S FOCUS
This is the fifth of an eight-part series highlighting critical  
elements of the 2008 Army Posture Statement. While the Army remains  
the best-led, best-trained, and best-equipped Army in the world, it  
is out of balance. The combined effects of an exceptionally high- and  
sustained-operational tempo have resulted in our readiness being  
consumed as fast as we can build it. Therefore, our top priority over  
the next several years is to restore balance through four  
imperatives: Sustain, Prepare, Reset, and Transform.

Prepare

To prepare our Solders, units and equipment, we must maintain a high  
level of readiness for the current operational environments,  
especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Goals for Prepare:

•	Continue to enhance the rigor of institutional, individual and  
operational training
•	Continue to improve the Army force generation (ARFORGEN) process
•	Train Soldiers and units to conduct full-spectrum operations to  
operate as part of a Joint, interagency or multi-national force
•	Provide Soldiers the best equipment available
•	Partner with private industry to rapidly develop and field equipment

We continue to adapt institutional, individual and collective  
training. To ready Soldiers, leaders and units for current  
operations, we have adapted our training for counterinsurgency  
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, our Combat Training  
Center (CTC) Program incorporates lessons learned from our  
experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan into training scenarios.

We are equally committed to ensuring Soldiers have the best available  
equipment to both protect them and maintain a technological advantage  
over their adversaries. Over the past six years the needs of our  
Soldiers in combat have energized private industry and led to the  
development and fielding of equipment much more rapidly than in the  
past.

The Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) process manages and prepares a  
campaign-quality and expeditionary Army for worldwide deployment. It  
is continuously modified to improve its efficiency, effectiveness and  
predictability for Soldiers and their Families. In our effort to  
improve the ARFORGEN process, we will conduct a Reset pilot in fiscal  
year 2008, involving units from both the active and reserve  
components. The Reset model will identify and apply institutional  
adjustments that are necessary in the Army’s generating force to  
rebuild unit readiness for future deployments within the timelines  
established by the ARFORGEN model.

For more detailed information on the Army Imperative, Prepare and  
related information papers, see Information papers

To see the full 2008 Army Posture Statement, see 2008 Army Posture  
Statement (full version)

INFORMATION YOU CAN USE
• 2007 Strategic Communication Guide - Read the 2007 Army Strategic  
Communication Guide for key messages and updates

• Strategic Communication Coordination Group (SCCG) Workspace

• Army Public Affairs Portal

• Stories of Valor

NEWS ABOUT THE ARMY
Korean War hero receives posthumous Medal of Honor (ARNews)
Army to revise online courses to stop cheaters (BG)
Covenant delivering on promises (ARNews)
CMA completes disposal mission milestone (ARNews)
WAR ON TERROR NEWS
Crisis at Colombia border spills into diplomatic realm (NYT)
Violence leaves young Iraqis doubting clerics (NYT)
Iran president, in Baghdad, calls for U.S. to leave (NYT)
Opinion: A surge to help Afghanistan (WP)
OF INTEREST
Navy awards contract for new Walter Reed facility (AFIS)
Chinese hacking worries Pentagon (LAT)
U.S. to broach nuke concerns with China (WT)
China military expansion could have global implications (AFIS)
WORLD VIEW
UN approves new sanctions on Iran (BBC | Story)
Dozens arrested in Saudi Arabia (AJ | Story)
U.S. 'exaggerating nuclear threat from North Korea' (IND | Story)
Opinion: Debating U.S. policy (AA | Story)
WHAT'S BEING SAID IN BLOGS
U.S. Army reports brass, not bloggers, breach security (OCT)
Afghanistan: Afghan army infantry training (CN)
Why are "professional" print writers so threatened by blogs? (BF)
Stop the presses! The surge is a failure! (KDH)
One last CIB... (ABP)
Northern disclosure (GC)
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