Stryker vehicle.Roxana Tiron's article on the success of the Stryker medium-weight combat vehicle program ("Army Puts the Stryker on a Fast Track," July 2003) documents the successful development of this much-maligned program. Srtyker has met all the challenges it confronted, making changes and improvements to the system when necessary We are now at the point that among the major concerns still before the system, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the author, is providing squad leaders Squad leader may mean
Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. with keyboards for their digital displays. Not only is Stryker a technical and operational success, it is a vital part of Army transformation. The continuing challenge posed lay stability and support operations Stability and support operations involve military forces providing safety and support to friendly noncombatants while suppressing and threatening forces. SASO operations can occur in everything from natural disaster areas (earthquakes, storms and flooding) to insurgencies and the ongoing war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act , creates new demands for lightweight, wheeled vehicles Noun 1. wheeled vehicle - a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC" axle - a shaft on which a wheel rotates that can operate in urban setting, mountainous terrain and dense foliage. Equally important is the growing requirement for medium-weight mobile, combined arms Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects. Though the lower-echelon units of a combined arms team may be of homogeneous types, a balanced mixture of such units are combined into an threes with lots of infantry. With approximately 50 percent of the active Army now engaged ill peacekeeping missions Noun 1. peacekeeping mission - the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) peacekeeping, peacekeeping operation from Afghanistan and Iraq to Bosnia mad Liberia, the role for Stryker medium-weight units must inevitably grow. U.S. forces could operate more effectively in policing Baghdad if they were equipped with Stryker vehicles instead of vulnerable Humvees. Srtyker's success is likely to make it a candidate for equipping other forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is looking at Stryker as a replacement for some of its light combat capabilities. Srtyker also is likely to have a major role to play in the defense export market. Nations that routinely have deployed lightweight, wheeled vehicles are likely to be attracted to the Stryker because of its enhanced supportability mad its exploitation of information technology Tiffs will give U.S. defense industries another major candidate with which to enhance dais nation's position in the global defense market place. Daniel Goure THE LEXINGTON INSTITUTE ARLINGTON, VA. |
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