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182 • Air Mobility Alternatives for a New Administration25 http://thehill.com /business--lobby/air-force-is-pressed-to-test-air-refueling--forhire-2007-06-06.html(Last visited 8-17-08).26 Those listed are actual contracted or delivered C-17s; the other countries listed are still innegotiation. “C-17 Globemaster III,” Wikipedia.org, August 30, 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-17_Globemaster_III/27 http://www.eads.net/1024/en/eads/eads_uk/Major_Programmes/A400M.html (Last visited8-17-08).28 “Embraer C-390 Military Transport Aircraft under Study,” Deagel.com, April 19, 2007, http://www.deagel.com/news/Embraer-C-390-Military-Transport-Aircraft-under-Study_n000001851.aspx29 “Headquarters Air Mobility Command White Paper KC:-X: The Next Mobility Platform, The Needfor a Flexible Tanker,” Air Mobility Command, http://www.amc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070227-044.pdf30 “US Strategic Airlift: The C-5 AMP/RERP Program vs. Buying C-17s,” Defense Industry Daily,2007, http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/files/DID_EXCEL_C-5_vs_C-17_Programs.xls31 John D. Klaus, “Strategic Mobility Innovation: Options and Oversight Issues,” April 29, 2005,CRS Report for Congress, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32887.pdf32 Each LMSR (Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-On/Roll-Off Ship) has the capability of approximately 3.0Million Ton Miles (MTM)/day per ship versus a C-17 at about 0.15 MTM/day – that is a 20-timesdifference in capability. See U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command Fact Sheet, “Large Medium-Speed,Roll-on/Roll-off Ships (LMSRs),” U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command, http://www.msc.navy.mil/factsheet/lmsr.asp; Each LMSR costs about the same as a C-17. See: “Table 5: Changes in EstimatedCost at Completion of LMSR New Construction Ships,” Tpub.com, http://www.tpub.com/content/cg1997/ns97150/ns971500017.htm; The operating costs per year are similar.33 The new name for AJACS is Joint Future Tactical Lift (JFTL). JFTL includes the U.S. Army’s JointHeavy Lift (JHL) and Quad-Tilt Rotor/VTOL concepts. These later concepts are potentially evenbigger budget busters than AJACS.34 “AJACS Load: US Begins (Another) Next-Gen Tactical Transport Project,” Defense Industry Daily,April 23, 2007, http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/ajacs-load-us-begins-another-nextgentactical-transport-project-03230/;The AJACS is a notional follow-on tactical airlifter to replaceC-130s in the 2020s. AJACS is based on a full RDT&E program, then production. The NTA isa notional modified Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) aircraft.35 Graham Warwick, “U.S. Army Extends JHL Concept Studies,” Aviation Week, July 1, 2008, http://www.aviationweekspacetechnology.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/JHL070108.xml&headline=U.S. percent 20Army percent 20Extends percent 20JHLpercent 20Concept percent 20Studies36 Lee Gaillard, “V-22 Osprey: Wonder Weapon or Widow Maker? They Warned Us. But No Oneis Listening,” Center for Defense Information, 2006.37 Richard Comer, “An Irregular Challenge,” Armed Forces Journal, http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/02/3608631/38 By the way of review, this includes aerial refueling, strategic sealift, strategic and tactical airlift,and special operations air.39 “Defense Acquisitions: A Knowledge-Based Funding Approach Could Improve Major WeaponSystems Program Outcomes,” United States Government Accountability Office, July 2008, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08619.pdf; “The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans:Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2008,” CBO.gov, March 2008, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/90xx/doc9043/03-28-CurrentDefensePlans.pdf40 For additional discussion of the DOD phenomena of larger budgets buying smaller defenseinventories and capabilities, see chapters 10 and 11.
CHAPTER 9THE army national guard,THE Army Reserve andTHE Marine Corps ReserveBruce I. GudmundssonIn the days when bronze was the material of choice for artillery pieces of the lightersort, the practice of recasting old ordnance on new patterns allowed armies to rapidlyrenovate their artillery parks at relatively low cost. In the middle years of the 19thcentury, a time of rapid improvement in the design of artillery pieces, the benefits ofthis practice were enhanced by the fact that new weapons made from the old materialwere much more effective than the guns, howitzers and mortars they replaced.At the start of the American Civil War, for example, the typical field artillery batteryconsisted of four 6-pounder guns (which fired a small projectile at relatively longranges) and two 12-pounder howitzers (which fired a larger projectile, but was severelylimited in range). The melting down of these six weapons produced enough metal tomake four 12-pounder Napoleons, pieces that combined the range advantage of the6-pounder gun with the larger projectile of the 12-pounder howitzer. Thus, instead offour weapons that were useful in some situations, and two that were useful in others,each battery was provided with four weapons that could fulfill all of the tasks that itwould be called upon to perform. 1The reforms of the Army National Guard, the Army Reserve and the MarineCorps Reserve proposed here have much in common with the recasting of bronzeordnance. The central premise is that, like the American field artillery parks of the1850s, the institutions in question are made out of first-class material that is formedon obsolete patterns. If one accepts the axiom that America’s reserve military formationsare important but need significant modification to better serve the nation’s needsin the 21st century, then it follows that the first step in the improvement of the ArmyNational Guard, the Army Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve is the creation of aset of improved patterns, the organizational equivalents of the design of the Napoleon12-pounder field piece. The first step in this design process, in turn, is the productionof a set of very basic sketches, or broad descriptions of the sort of organizations thatthe author would like to see created.Like other preliminary sketches, the descriptions that follow neither condemn thepresent system nor defend a definitive alternative. Rather, they serve as an aid to theimagination, a means by which readers might compare the current state of affairs witha very different way of doing business. In keeping with this purpose, the descriptionsare presented in the present tense to describe a hypothetically existing situation.
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