PPT Slide
- The Army says their vehicles need less protection because Army leaders will know everything about the battlespace and thus, the risk of being discovered or attacked is low. Further, Army says IBCT will avoid contact with the enemy! Does the enemy know this? Somalia taught a different lesson? Perfect situational awareness will never exist!
- Transition from peacekeeping to warfighting can be swift and sudden. USAF could not effectively target the 50,000 heavily armed Yugoslav troops in Kosovo if they attacked Macedonia in the extreme weather conditions of April 1999.
- When it became clear that an attack by the Yugoslav Army in April 1999 under the cover of bad weather threatened to quickly destroy NATO ground forces in Macedonia because they were composed of light infantry, rubber-tire wheeled armor and light helicopters for “peacekeeping only,” NATO Nations quickly sent in heavy tracked armored fighting vehicle ground forces. An attack by the VJ under the cover of bad weather in March or April 1999 would have transformed KFOR into a large POW camp!
Is no one scratching his head at this wheeled armored car nonsense?