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Title: Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century by David L. Grange, Huba Wass De Czege, Richard D. Liebert, John E. Richards, Michael L. Sparks, Charles A. Jarnot, Allen L. Huber, Emery E. Nelson ISBN: 1-56311-616-2 Publisher: Turner Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.97 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Paves the way for America's Army, helps the "transformation"
Comment: Thanks to an advance copy of this fantastic sequel to Col Douglas MacGregor's best-selling "Breaking the Phalanx", I can report that the U.S. Army's combat Divisions have a great future, as do its heavy "2-D" forces with M-1 and M-2 armored vehicles, since the authors outline ways to build Brigade Combat Teams while keeping the Division, so we have size/mass/sustainability for larger fights as well as smaller scale contingencies. The authors show how these "2-D" elements can be fought alongside 3-D "Air-Mech" forces which have vehicles sized to fly into position using aircraft.
America's Army is transforming a handful of its Brigades to a lighter combined-arms BCT structure using Interim Armored Vehicles (IAVs) sized to rapidly deploy by U.S. Air Force, fixed-wing aircraft anywhere in the world to conflict areas. The authors build and expand this "transformation" initiative to another level of capability, explaining how to gain a 3-Dimensional maneuver and fire capability; by using airland/airdrop enhancements,taking advantage of, and further synchronizing Army rotary-wing aircraft into the IAV equipped combined-arms teams.
Building 3-D maneuver and fire capable Air-Mech Strike Brigade Combat Teams, with existing and some new equipment, they show how the Army and Congress can save money to transform the entire Army with the required numbers of IAVs in our units. These affordable suggestions can help our transformation "be all that it can be" throughout the spectrum of conflict.
This is the most important book ever written about the future of America's Army and every Soldier and Citizen should read it as soon as possible.
Rating: 5
Summary: 2D and 3D 'running' and 'passing' game!
Comment: My first impression, thinking about 2 dimension warfare and three dimensions with lethal, airmobile fighting platforms, was how heavy Army forces have done the powerful, ground assaults in 2 dimensions, with huge linemen like 70 ton M1 tanks, but with Air Mech Strike, it's like technique called 'passing' has been made available. When passing (3D air mech maneuver) was introduced into football, many probably hated it, but where would NFL and college football be today with passing, interceptions, etc. 3D and 2D can 'work' together, just like football is the metaphor for War (principles are similar - Mass, Maneuver, Unity of Command, Economy of Force, Surprise, Simplicity, Security, Objective and Offense.....)
With 3D Air Mech and 2D heavy forces, we have more synergy and options to defeat the enemy, get the 'drop' on them, take the offense, make first downs and get in end zone. Now of course Air Defense can be very dangerous to Air Mech, but so are interceptions in passing game, there is RISK, and Quarterback and receivers DEMAND training, just as future Air Mech Strike troopers should be highly trained and have superb leaders, just like the couragous airborne and glider troops of the 101 Airborne and 82nd, led by great men like General Gavin and General Ridgeway. The brave troopers of 1-7 Cav at Ia Drang with then LTC Moore and other pioneers of airmobility in the First Cav, Big Red One and almost every unit in Vietnam pushed airmobility. Too bad our skills have withered, and it's time to renew those skills. This book is rich with materials, references, and graphics all well balanced to offer a 3 dimensional vision of future war, grounded on historical and current scenarios.
It's time for the Army and rest of DOD to get serious and find some good 'passing' QBs and great Receivers' to make this unique and bold doctrine effective for a powerful 2D and 3D American military on any field of battle, not just in the Superbowl!
Rating: 5
Summary: 2nd edition! Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare
Comment: The Air-Mech-Strike Study Group has just published the 2nd edition of their book called "Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver warfare for the 21st century".
The book is now in print again and... should eventually have them for online sale soon!
I'm looking right now at a 2nd edition AMS book and can't put it down!
The illustrations have been expanded with hard-to-find photos of world-wide Air-Mech combat operations and the text fine-tuned. The new post 9/11 terror attack world situation has been addressed in the new beginning chapter explaining why 3D capable AMS forces are needed to find, locate and destroy terrorist groups hiding in host nations and remote areas, a capability Vietnam combat tanker Ralph Zumbro has been warning us for years we need.
There are a host of NEW ADVANCED CONCEPTS CONTAINED IN 2D EDITION:
* Enhanced definition of "Air-Mech-Strike"
* Afghanistan Operation Anaconda Air-Mech operations using tracked BV-206s and M-GATOR ATVs
* Sub-National Terrorist Group decisive maneuver defeat mechanisms
* Defeat of enemy surveillance strike complexes by MANEUVER
* Piasecki Vectored Thrust Ducted Compound Helicopters
* Articulated tracked armored fighting vehicles (BV-206S)
* Nose Loading equipment for cargo 747s
* Tracked and Air Cushion landing gear for extreme STOL airland operations
* Reduced turrets to make M1/M2 into medium weight OFFENSIVE platforms
* More exclusive photos of Air-Mech operations by U.S., British and Russians
* ACTD proposals for 82nd Airborne and 101st Air Assault Divisions
* Lighter-Than-Air cargo airships to speed heavy 2D forces and logistics without need of runways/ports
* Cost and performance comparisons of tracked tanks versus LAV-III/Stryker rubber-tired armored cars
* Ducted-fan FTR concepts
* Infared camouflage for armored fighting vehicles and troops
* How AMS maneuver can collapse the will of our enemies
All in all, the 2nd edition book builds and improves a better transformation vision for the U.S. Army and shows how a truly open minded group can constantly improve/refine its vision as new information is discovered. DoD and the Army should fully adopt these concepts and equipments and reform themselves to gain an American Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare capability.
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