Division XXI CSS: Value Added Or Just a Repeat of History

Download or read book Division XXI CSS: Value Added Or Just a Repeat of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Army's Force XXI campaign, the Army has redesigned the heavy division for the 21st century, aptly naming it Division XXI. In designing Division XXI, the Army made a key decision to radically alter the way logistics will be conducted at the tactical level. Given personnel end strength constraints to future force development, Division XXI was designed to be smaller than the current Army of Excellence heavy division. In support of the new divisional design, the Army has attempted to reduce its proverbial "tail" in order to lessen the logistic footprint. Army planners therefore embarked on a new intellectual, organizational, and technological approach to tactical logistics at the division level. This monograph examines the question of whether the organizational and technological changes to the AOE Forward Support Battalion (FSB), sustain the flexibility and tactical mobility of the armored and mechanized infantry task force. This monograph briefly examines the driving forces behind Division XXI, and then explores the development of the Army of Excellence CSS structure. The author then provides a synopsis of current doctrinal roles and missions of the heavy division CSS organizations, with an emphasis on the FSB; and follows this up with an in depth review of Division XXI CSS and the new FSB. The author uses the Army's Joint Venture Analytic results to underscore the Army's failure to properly test and analyze Division XXI CSS and identifies some of the ma%or challenges the new organization structure has in sustaining the flexibility and tactical mobility of the armored and mechanized infantry task force. The author thus concludes that the new Division XXI FSB does not sustain the flexibility and tactical mobility of the armored and mechanized infantry task force.