War Logistics
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Equipping & Supplying Operations
 
Analysis & Planning
The War Against Terrorism's Iraq Front is kinetic and is being adjusted by feedback from all levels.
Think about the equipment, supplies and planning required to support your life daily. Think about the planning you put into performing a task on your job... on planning your weekends, on planning a vacation. When you need something you go to the store and buy whatever it may be  ---  food, gas for your car  ---  and then drive to work and home. You have public roads and services including water, natural gas, and electricity all provided with no effort on your part and available to you on demand. If you need a doctor you telephone, make an appointment, and see a doctor. In an emergency, you may just about automatically be taken to a hospital where trained doctors and nurses who probably never saw you before suddenly work to save you life. When you get hungry you go to your refrigerator, the grocery store or a restaurant.
Think again. Think about the equipment and supplies required to support a military operation. Understand that first there must be the invention of components and equipment, congressional politics, and finally the appropriation of money for equipment, the detailed planning, design, construction, testing, re-testing, training of service and operational personnel. All of that and more occurs at detailed levels by employees at defense contractors and must be completed successfully to build a military force. This military force must be potent enough to prevent your nation from being attacked, your property taken by invaders, and even your life ended.
Now envision the airplanes, ships, land vehicles and men and women required to perform the liberation of Iraq from Hussein's regime. Envision delivery of the naval battle groups and related ships....  Envision the land vehicles:  thousands of tanks, armored personnel carriers,  jeeps, trucks, transport vehicles required to move personnel and materiel.... Envision the aircraft required:  hundreds of fighters, bombers, tankers that perform mid-air re-fueling, reconnaissance planes, unmanned drones....
Envision the physical and mental training, feeding, dressing, sanitary needs, recreational needs and more of 300,000 men and women. Imagine the training just to get 300,000 men and women to understand the chain of command and then in an always coordinated manner, carry out orders, often under extreme duress. And that is more stress than you have on your job and in your daily personal life.
Envision the supplies required to operate, repair, and supply all of that equipment and those 300,000 men and women. Envision the troops moving 200 miles into the desert. How do they receive food, gasoline, ammunition, medical aid, instant support when attacked?
And now imagine the decades of large scale planning and the years of detailed planning required to implement the liberation of Iraq from Hussein's regime.
Just envisioning all of that was more than any one of us can do. Imagine the actual accomplishment of such a project.
The following report is by Arnaud de Borchgrave
UPI Editor at Large
From the International Desk
Published March 21, 2003
"A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the [Jordanian] border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
1.  Imagine if the Bush administration, CIA & FBI teams had prevented the attacks on September 11.  The media would be talking about 20 Middle Eastern men, "Mostly Saudi citizens, potential terrorists who had planned multiple attacks against civilian and government buildings on the U.S. mainland."  If the attacks had been thwarted, what would be happening today?
Lawyers & Rights groups would be screaming about the Saudi 20, their rights and illegal detentions.
The administration, CIA & FBI would be hailed as heroes.
The administration, CIA & FBI would be attacked as right-wing nuts abusing everyone's rights.
Most people would have forgotten about it by now.
2. Should nations of the civilized world join to declare a new level & type of war that crosses national borders in order to fight terrorism? Yes
 No
3. Do you think people realize that the billions of dollars to be spent building and activating the military and rebuilding and repairing destroyed structures and infrastructures will purchase new products (building materials, vehicles, office furniture, cement, telecommunications equipment, etc.), purchase services (architects, designers, waitresses, etc.) and, therefore pay salaries (construction workers, computer programmers, engineers, truck drivers, etc.)? Yes
 No
 Yes, and I understand that it supplements the economy.
4. Do you consider the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001 against America an act of war?
Yes  No
Yes, thousands have been killed -- more than died in some declared wars.
If not an act of war, what would you call it?
5. About the events of September 11, 2001:
Several words accurately describe our feelings, emotions, pain and the many other aspects of the day. Listed to the right are some of the words used by print and TV media. Each word is followed by its definition from the American Heritage Dictionary. Please read the list & select the one word (based on its definition) that you believe is appropriate as an overall description of the event.
Disaster:  An occurrence causing widespread destruction and distress.
Tragedy:  A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, a moral weakness or an inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
Attack:  To set upon with violent force. Catastrophe:  A great, often sudden calamity.
None of these. Instead, I call it a(an): I don't want to think about it.
6. Throughout history there have been several times when millions of ordinary people have followed demagogues like Hitler, Stalin and bin Laden who are driven by hatred, ignorance, use violence, and demand killing masses of people that are different from them. Do you find this historical perspective comforting in light of current events? Yes
 No
 Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
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