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"All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

--Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)

 

The Non-Linear Battlefield
Why DoD doesn't understand modern war
Need for 2D/3D Strategic Maneuver
"Afghan Model" as future of war debunked
Iraq Debacle 1: troops dying in trucks, need TRACKS
Iraq Debacle 2: Stryker horrors
Iraq Debacle 3: Washington Times: M113 Gavin TRACKS not more trucks needed for Iraq
Iraqi Debacle 4: Sleepless U.S. Army killing itself in vehicle accidents
Fix-It Area's
Leadership
Intelligence
Operational Art
Technotactics
2D Combat Engineering
3D Airborne Warfare
Command & Signal
AFVs
Weapons
TA-50
NBC/Medical
Uniforms
Army Links
Field Manuals
Soldier Helps
Training & Simulations
1 Minute Battle Drill
Land Power Transformation (LPT)
2003-4
2005-6
Why Tracks are better than wheels
Stryker and reality of war
U.S. Army/Air Force Aviation Journal (AVJ)
2003-4
2005-6
Reformers
Colonel Douglas MacGregor
Victor O'Reilly
Carlton Meyer
Phil West
Scott Miller
Andy MacDougall
Kevin Aston
Tank Sergeant Ralph Zumbro
Colonel David Hackworth USA (R)
Colonel John Boyd USAF (R) & DNI
Bud Calkin
Colonel Richard Haislip USMC (R)
Brigadier General (R) David Grange's AMS-SG
Bill Lind
David Pyne
Major Don Vandegriff USA
Frank Piasecki

 

The 1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne) is a non-profit think-tank and action group dedicated to furthering U.S. military excellence with a moral compass. It is composed of several sub-study groups specializing in key military areas:

General David Grange's Air-Mech-Strike Study Group 2 (AMS-SG2) specializes in 2D/3D maneuver warfare concepts

Iraqi Lessons Learned Study Group renamed in honor of British Army reformer, Richard Haldane as the HALDANEDODREFORMBOARD2 or "Haldanes" (HALDANE-DRB2)

Chuck Myers' Maneuver Air Support Working Group 2 (MAS-WG2)

eXtreme Soldiering Combat Light Working Group 2 (eXSCL-WG2)

LAV-III Stryker wheeled truck FUBAR Group (LAV3STRYKERFUBAR2)

21st Century Rifle Controversy Group 2 (21CENTURYRIFLECONTROVERSY2)

Ranger Larry's Guns of The Internet (GOTI)

The Great Tank Debate 2 Research Group (THEGREATTANKDEBATE2)

Combat Engineering Study Group (ARMYSAPPERSFORWARD)

The Naval Fire Support Battleship Modernization Working Group (NFSBBG-WG)

The Great Doctrine Debate III: 4th Generation Warfare Group (THEGREATDOCTRINEDEBATE3) dedicated to the work of military futurist Dr. Martin van Crevald

For all military topics we have two general study groups:

Army Transformation 21st Century mailing list

Military Reform mailing list

The 1st TSG (A) assists U.S. civilian/military leaders and Soldiers with studies, gear designs and professional military education materials at no charge. We send out each month an inter-active, e-magazine focused on ground maneuver; Land Power Transformation 2 (LPT) and on air operations, U.S. Army/Air Force Aviation Journal (AVJ) to our members at-large

New Articles as of January 29th, 2007

The Non-Linear Fight We are Now In: It takes MANEUVER, Tofflerian/RMA NeoCons!

Former CIA Director Woolsey and Dr. Kopp expose what ISLAMO-FASCISM really is

Starship Trooper physical MANEUVER versus Tofflerian mental firepower: DoD on a collision course with disaster

Biddle's Army War College Afghanistan report debunks precision firepower without ground maneuver "future of warfare" madness infecting DoD

LTC Gentry reveals RMA/netcentric mentalism is a dangerous, failed crutch!

How the U.S. Army reverse-engineers reality into their "transformation" plans: Chapter 6, page 159 dismisses our superior Air-Mech-Strike and Breaking the Phalanx plans!

Tale of two Colonels: Charles DeGaulle and Douglas MacGregor misunderstood reformers

Improved Tank/Infantry cooperation for urban combat?

U.S. Army Reserves: Not Ready, but need to be ready for non-linear combat

Retired General David Grange begins Military Veterans Radio/WWW Sunday Night Show

Return of the Horse Soldiers?

Impeach Bush: wants to reduce U.S. nuclear shield to 4 subs and 4 AF bases by 2017, National Survival in jeopardy

Mexican Army and intel services leading attacks across U.S. southern borders: time to move National Guard with live ammunition to seal off this asymmetric attack avenue for 9/11 type terrorists

DoD: screwed up since 1947, how to fix it before its too late

U.S. Army needs Honor Code NOW

New book charts Army success path: Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century

Study Group Member conducts first U.S. Army Air-Mech-Strike assault in Afghanistan

Tofflerian thinking poisoning U.S. military?

Afghanistan Primer: solving the "we don't do mountains" light-itis non-sense

Tanks are Combat Engineer Vehicles

 


More on the U.S. Army wheeled mafia's Stryker truck deathtrap!

O'Reilly Report as PDF File

U.S. Soldiers dying; Enough-is-Enough: send in enough M113 Gavins to replace all HMMWV trucks in Iraq

Soft-skin Army getting clobbered in Iraq: wheeled HMMWV trucks and inadequate Soldier protection

Shinseki gone: Stryker lies starting to come out: roll-over at NTC

WorldNetDaily: Billions wasted on new military vehicle? Critics pan Army's 'Stryker ' as poor alternative to tracked predecessors

Transform the Army Airborne and Light Divisions' Delta Companies: it maneuvers a Battalion

Army censorship defeated: LAVDANGER web site online again revealing Stryker deathtrap

High-level Army official reveals current Army leaders have been lying about Stryker armored car all along

Lav3stryker: Senator Stevens wants PORK, RAND calls it a LEMON, Soldiers need the DIAMOND; the M113A3 Gavin

Former Speaker of the House Gingrich blows whistle on lav3stryker deathtrap

Wargame cheating cannot save Army wheeled deathtrap: DoD considers canceling the lav3stryker

Official U.S. Army Report: Lav3Stryker is a miserable failure; FCS is unworkable fantasy, USAF not even consulted when 96 hour air transport claims made!

 

New combat simulation study proves M113A3/M8 AGS IBCT force structure superior to LAV-III armored cars

Rubber-tired LAV armored cars will not survive modern combats

Gavin's Cavalry: light tracked M113 AAM/PVFs perfect for non-linear, lethal modern battlefields

Hi-Technology tracked 2nd ACR beats wheeled IBCTs

Heavy tanks, helicopter fighter-bombers: U.S. Army in search of doctrine?

Army officer in 1989 proposed better transformation plan; Army has no justification for LAV armored car purchases

Army enlistedman/officer presents M113A3 transformation plan in 1995 ARMOR magazine

Colonel MacGregor's Airborne-Air Assault Battle Groups

Light Mech Sappers

How blind obedience creates bad decisions like LAV-III/Stryker trucks

Army says "wheels or walk!", ignores lighter tracks

Why doesn't the press expose the LAV-III/IAV scam?

Russian LAV-III equivalent armored car blown up in Chechnya (actual footage)

Tracks vs. Wheels 101: look at the drivetrains!

What if your LAV-III can't turn around on a mountain pass?

Official MTMC-TEA Study proves LAV-IIIs NOT C-130 transportable

Only 2 x LAV-IIIs fly by C-17, we can fly 2 x Bradleys, 5 x M113A3 Gavins, why waste $$BILLIONS on LAV-IIIs?

Goodbye armor, hello peacekeepers! Don Loughlin exposes LAV-III scam in Defense Daily News

High-level misconduct behind LAV-III scam

Britain wants tracks for FSCS Tracer scout vehicle, Gen Shinseki didn't: program cancelled, No Cavalry Branch, no Cavalry vehicles!

Army adopts air-delivered M113A3 Gavin Mech-Infantry concept in Europe reaction force, airlands into Northern Iraq

Light Mechanized Sapper Company (Airborne)

FM 7-7: Cross-country-capable, amphibious APC: rediscover a lost art

Ocean-going M113A3 AmphiGavins: key to speeding Army sealift

Australian Army upgrades its tracked M113s: East Timor victors by way of C-130

Canadians selling us their wheeled armored cars (pork$$$), upgrading THEIR TRACKED M113s (combat power)

Spin: Canadians call tracked M113s "TLAVs", can't admit wheeled "LAVs" stink

Many New Zealanders reject LAV-III deathtrap armored cars

Italian Army has better adapted M113A3s

U.S. Army World-wide Strategic Maneuver (AWSOM) costs less than LAV-III cars, solves strategic air/sea lift woes

Defense Daily News: AWSOM 2D/3D maneuver and firepower doctrine

How tracked tanks can fly by leased cargo 747s (large armored cars can't)

An Army without tanks?

Mechanized Cavalry history: wheels a failure, no Cavalry Branch, No Cavalry

ALL Future Combat System proposals wheeled: fantasy "cash cow" to fleece America

 


New Soldier Self-Help Discoveries!

Iraqi Combat: Small Arms and Individual Equipment Lessons Learned

Army battery charging problems solved: power inverters in HMMWV trucks NOW

U.S. Army Reading List NOW

Helmet NVG mount protection and rank/name ID: without 100 mph tape

MOLLE rucksack failure: what do we do for a jump-capable rucksack?

Kosmo MOUT lifeline: rescue your buddy out of the line of fire

Combat Light: Soldiers Load Solution do-able right now!

Got bad gear, Soldier? Nobody listening? Post your ideas at Brigade Quartermasters: they'll get good gear to the good guys (you)

Does Ecotat have the Soldier's Load problem solved?

Winter approaches: replace field jacket liners ASAP!

The Great 21st Century Rifle Controversy: is 5.56mm enough?

U.S. Army reports Afghan gear problems: 1st TSG (A) told them so, Soldiers still getting ignored

Ground launched Hydra 70mm 2.75 inch rockets: Brazil makes the launcher we need

Ranger Rick Tscherne returns from the Balkans: creates SOS survival dog tag necklace

Fighting "war" on terrorism handicapped: where is the tear gas?

No more hard plastic canteen jump injuries: flexible 1-qt canteens are here

New Army chinstrap will save lives IF we get it NOW, not in 10 years

Colonel Hackworth's Vietnam Primer: excellent guide to non-linear combat in closed terrain against asymmetric enemies

"An Army of One, a Soldier for all"

WWII Airborne screen saver

 


Improved Aircraft and Close Air Support (CAS)

1st TSG (A) discovers 108 Paratroopers can jump from a C-17!

LA Times USMC self-promotion: pride/ego-created AV-8 and V-22 kill Americans, waste $BILLIONS tax dollars; w/o phony "911" unit, maybe we'd not have 9/11 attacks?

Why can't the U.S. military land on water anymore?

Boeing Phantom Works adopts AMS-SG's WIG concept!

V-22: marine Colonel's lies about flying deathtrap exposed!

Fix USAF CAS: Air Commandos and 2-seat OA-10B Warthogs

Fix U.S. Army Close Fight Support: Attack Pathfinder AeroScouts

U.S. Army adopts 1st TSG (A) "RoboCobra" UCAV concept

The trouble with aircraft: they ain't--ground mobility needed

Why air strikes without decisive maneuver failed in Iraq and Kosovo

How the USAF sees the world!

Got CAS? Charles Myers Maneuver Air Support can fix this

"Killer Bees": low-cost scout/attack aircraft for the 1st Cavalry Division

Goodbye Future Transport Rotorcraft! All Army monies are being wasted on LAV-III/FCS armored deathcars

No future for U.S. Navy/marines without jet seaplanes

No Air Recon: how fighter pilot egos grounded the SR-71

WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON WITH THE STRYKER TRUCK DEBACLE?

Another 1st TSG (A) member writes in:

"Have you any idea where I can locate more information on the current status of the Stryker program as well as any information on how well it is performing in Iraq today?

This thing is a classic procurement boondoggle and will probably kill a bunch of kids."

A concerned citizen asks:

"After reading a lot of the stuff on your site, I just can't understand why the Army uses Humvees so much. They don't offer much protection at all. I also was surprised about reports of certain units having to improvise by adding armor plating on their trucks and other vehicles. You are right about how this has lead to quite a few deaths and it does not seem all that hard to solve. Maybe someday someone will do something about this because the Soldiers need better protection than this."

1st TSG (A) REPLY: Here are some web pages we update:

.../strykerhorrors.htm
..lavdanger.htm

 

 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS! 1st TSG (A) EXCLUSIVE!

Defiance: What if the "Potters" Smash your "Wonderful Life"?

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