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WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMFM 100-5combined exercises, continual contacts, and nationassistance.Army forces must be deployable. Commanders tailorforce packages to accommodate land combat requirementsof theater commanders in a variety of strategiccontingency plans. Deployability is a product ofstrategic lift coupled with Army force readiness. Toease the burden on strategic lift, the Army pre-positionsequipment on land and sea, improves militaryrelatedinfrastructures in less stable regions, designsforces and equipment that are easily transportable, andtrains forces to deploy quickly.The Army must be expansible. The Army generatesforces to respond rapidly to crises with a mix oftrained and ready, active and reserve component forcesrepresenting the Total Army. How rapidly those forcescan be generated depends on a number of variables,since time and training resources needed to hone afighting edge and prepare combat teams for war areseverely limited. Timely mobilization of reserve forcesprovides the means for sustaining conflict. Deployedforces require reserve component participation forcombat arms, combat support (CS) and combat servicesupport (CSS) across Army activities ranging fromnation assistance to global war.The Army must be capable of achieving decisivevictory. The Army must maintain the capability to putoverwhelming combat power on the battlefield to defeatall enemies through a total force effort. It producesforces of the highest quality, able to deploy rapidly,to fight, to sustain themselves, and to win quicklywith minimum casualties. That is decisive victory.THEATER STRATEGYTheater commanders translate national, alliance,or coalition direction into theater strategies based onplanning requirements for war or operations other thanwar. Theater strategies are reinforced as required bysupporting combatant commanders. Theater strategiesprovide the basis for all operations plans(OPLANs) and are designed to achieve strategic endstates.THE TRAINING ANDREADINESS CHALLENGEOn the day of battle, soldiers and units will fight aswell or as poorly as they are trained. Training to highstandards is essential in both peace and war; never canArmy forces afford not to train and maintain the highestlevels of readiness. Every commander, every soldier,every unit in a force-projection army must betrained and ready to deploy. Leaders have the responsibilityto train subordinates. This may be their mostsolemn responsibility.The Army faces a unique set of challenges as it adapts to a worldthat has changed more broadly and fundamentally than at any othertime since the end of World War II. The Army must continue to adaptto ensure success in a rapidly changing strategic environment. Now,more than ever before, it serves as a strategic Army, a land force thatthe United States and its allies rely on to meet global challenges.1-5