Authors:Alan J. Vick, Adam Grissom, William Rosenau, Beth
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: usaf, advisory, assistance, missions, importance, strategic, power, new, counterinsurgency, era, air
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039636
ISBN-13: 9780833039637

Often treated by Americans as an exceptional form of warfare, insurgency is anything but. Spanning the globe, centuries, and societies, insurgency is quite common. Given the threat insurgency presents to U.S. interests and allies around the world, the importance of counterinsurgency is no surprise. However, history has shown that insurgencies are rarely defeated by outside powers. Rather, the best role for outsiders is an indirect one: training, advising, and equipping the local nation, which must win the war politically and militarily. And while counterinsurgency might seem to be a task most

Authors:Matthew W. Lewis, Aimee Bower, Mishaw T. Cuyler,
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: support, hospitals, combat, strategies, equipping, new
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 1969-12-31
ISBN-10: 0833049968
ISBN-13: 9780833049964

Combat Support Hospitals, when not deployed, keep a partial set of equipment at home station with the remainder in long-term storage, a strategy that has created maintenance and obsolescence challenges. This briefing describes a new strategy for configuring home station equipment sets and proposes that deploying CSHs eliminate much of the unit-owned equipment currently in long-term storage, actions that will sharply reduce total equipment costs. From the Publisher:The U.S. Army uses Combat Support Hospitals (CSHs) — mobile, deployable hospitals housed in tents and expandable containers