Smaller and faster: Army envisions a quick-reaction force in Europe

Article Abstract:

The U.S. Army reduces its forces in Europe from 62,000 soldiers to 24,000 and is planning to move its headquarters from Heidelberg in Germany to Wiesbade as a part of consolidation of operations that will put a greater emphasis on rapid deployability. The Army's power-projection capability and its ability to sustain combat operations in far-flung areas will be greatly improved due to the consolidation of operations.

Military Preparedness, Military readiness

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Learning by doing: Poland draws lessons from foreign deployment

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Polish military forces are learning hard lessons from their recent foreign deployments especially the deployment involving leadership of the Multinational Division Central-South in Iraq. Poland received support from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the alliance's operations command, in the areas of force-generation capabilities, communications, logistics and movement coordination.

Poland, Deployment (Strategy), Deployment (Military science)

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Counterproductive

Article Abstract:

The undesirable actions of private military contractors in Iraq have led to a negative outlook towards the U.S. Army in Iraq and the rest of the Muslim world.

Investigation, Guard, and Armored Car Services, Iraq, Security systems services, Security Services, Detective & armored car services, Security services industry, Counterinsurgency

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