Counterpoint: air-mechanization: an expensive and fragile concept.

From: Military Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Gordon, John; Johnson, David E.; Wilson, Peter A. | Copyright information

FOR ROUGHLY A DECADE the Army has been examining a concept widely referred to as air-mechanization. According to the concept, some portion of future Army forces would be designed specifically for quick transport to a key location on the battlefield ("intra-theater aerial maneuver") using aircraft of roughly C-130 size. In theory, this capability would enable Army forces to conduct rapid aerial maneuver of medium-weight mechanized units over a distance of several hundred miles to pl...

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