BATTLEBOXES: REVOLUTION IN MOBILE, PROTECTED WARFARE

1. BATTLEBOXES: REVOLUTION IN MOBILE, PROTECTED WARFARE

2. BATTLEBOX TACTICAL CONCEPT 100 Men = 30 x ISO Container “BattleBoxes” (BBs) 20 troop/supply boxes 10 specialty boxes Notional Mechanized Infantry 3D Maneuver Company = 15 tracked M113 Gavin AFVs (1 added to MTOE) 2 with bulldozer blades, 1 with M806 crane XM1108 Gavin tracked Resupply AFV (replaces 2.5 ton FMTV truck) + 400 gallon water buffalo 1.25 ton HMMWV truck + small ANT trailer 2 x Bobcat mini-bulldozers + 30 ANT-ISO trailers 1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne) 2005 www.geocities.com/strategicmaneuver/battleboxes.htm

3. WHY BATTLEBOXES? The Roman Legion no matter wherever they were, lived in fortified stockades made of things they brought along with them. The American settlers conquered the west with wagons they lived from and carried enough supplies to sustain them through rough times. In WW2, we used Quonset huts for hard-shell portable housing and since then have forgotten. Why should we invade a country and live in their buildings which is a tactical liability for us? With BattleBoxes we do not need to be ugly occupiers and lose the war by creating an insurgency. We are not visible and if they do see us, we look and live temporary. No imperialistic appearances to grab their land/resources and incite rebellion. Americans only stay long enough to get the job done and while we are guests we act like guests. Joe Katzman: You know, that’s a damn fine point.

4. WHY BATTLEBOXES? http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20041221093709990015 Updated: 12:13 PM EST Attack at Military Base Kills at Least 20 in Iraq More Than 60 Wounded at Mosul Facility; Islamic Group Claims Responsibility By MICHAEL McDONOUGH, AP BAGHDAD, Iraq (Dec. 21) -- Rockets struck a mess tent at a military base in Mosul where hundreds of U.S. Soldiers had just sat down to lunch Tuesday, and military officials said at least 20 people were killed and more than 60 were wounded. A radical Muslim group, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, claimed responsibility. Dean Hoffmeyer, Richmond Times Dispatch / AP Smoke from Tuesday's rocket attack hangs over a dining tent at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq. The dead included U.S. military personnel, U.S. contractors, foreign national contractors and Iraqi army, said Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia in Mosul. The attack came the same day that British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Baghdad and described the ongoing violence in Iraq as a ''battle between democracy and terror.'’ Jeremy Redmon, a reporter for the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch embedded with the troops in Mosul, reported that 24 were killed in the attack at Forward Operating Base Marez, including two from the Richmond-based 276th Engineer Battalion, which had just sat down to eat. He reported 64 were wounded, and civilians may have been among them, he said. One Pentagon official put the death toll at 22; another military official said it was around 20. Officials could not break down the toll of dead or wounded among the groups. Reports also differed as to whether mortars were used in the attack on the camp, which is based outside the predominantly Sunni Muslim city about 220 miles north of Baghdad.

5. The base, also known as the al-Ghizlani military camp, is used by both U.S. troops and the interim Iraqi government's security forces. The force of the explosions knocked Soldiers off their feet and out of their seats as a fireball enveloped the top of the tent and shrapnel sprayed into the area, Redmon said. Amid the screaming and thick smoke in the tent, Soldiers turned their tables upside down, placed the wounded on them and gently carried them into the parking lot, Redmon said. Scores of troops crammed into concrete bomb shelters, while others wandered around in a daze and collapsed, he said. ''I can't hear! I can't hear!'' one female soldier cried as a friend hugged her. The shelling blew a huge hole in the roof of the tent, and puddles of blood, lunch trays and overturned tables and chairs covered the floor, Redmond reported. Near the front entrance, troops tended a Soldier with a serious head wound, but within minutes, they zipped him into a black body bag, he said. Three more bodies were in the parking lot. ''It is indeed a very, very sad day,'' Ham said. It made no difference whether the casualties were Soldiers or civilians, Americans or Iraqis, Ham said. ''They were all brothers in arms taking care of one another,'' he said. Redmon and photographer Dean Hoffmeyer are embedded with the 276th Engineer Battalion, a Richmond, Va., unit that can trace its lineage to the First Virginia Regiment of Volunteers formed in 1652. George Washington and Patrick Henry were two of its early commanders. Henry created the unit's motto, ''Liberty or Death.'' The Ansar al-Sunnah Army claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on the Internet. It said the attack was a ''martyrdom operation'' targeting a mess hall in the al-Ghizlani camp. Ansar al-Sunna is believed to be a fundamentalist group that wants to turn Iraq into an Islamic state like Afghanistan's former Taliban regime. The Sunni Muslim group claimed responsibility for beheading 12 Nepalese hostages and other recent attacks in Mosul. Mosul was the scene of the deadliest single incident for U.S. troops in Iraq. On Nov. 15, 2003, two Black Hawk helicopters collided over the city, killing 17 Soldiers and injuring five. The crash occurred as the two choppers maneuvered to avoid ground fire from insurgents. Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, was relatively peaceful in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime last year. But insurgent attacks in the largely Sunni Arab area have increased dramatically in the past year and particularly since the U.S.-led military operation in November to retake the restive city of Fallujah from militants. Earlier in the day, hundreds of students demonstrated in the center of the city, demanding that U.S. troops cease breaking into homes and mosques there.

6. Iraq Casualty Report: 159 lives could have been saved if Soldiers were in dug-in, fortified ISO container "Battle Boxes" instead of flimsy tents, above ground buildings and occupying former Saddam palaces, drowning in swimming pools and generally easily targeted by enemies. Details: www.geocities.com/militaryincompetence/americaniraqwarcasualtiesv1.0.htm S-3st + B-5st + G-19st + RM-21+ ACC-14 (code RED and st for Static Situation) = 36 + 38 + 14 + 58 + 13 = 159 Joe Katzman: UEL gets a –404... and works against you by its name. Find a more neutral-sounding URL and just lay out the situations very clinically on that page. Let the facts speak for themselves.

7. NO “TENT CITIES”!!!!

8. VULNERABLE: A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN Joe Katzman: Turn them over to the Guard for storage and use in civilian disaster relief in the immediate aftermath of earthquakes, floods, etc.

9. NO PLYWOOD GUARD SHACKS! Joe Katzman: Good slide NO MORE PLYWOOD SHOWERS! NO MORE ROTTING TENTS! NO PLYWOOD OUTHOUSES!

10. WE ALREADY SHIP AND USE THOUSANDS OF ISO CONTAINERS AS BARNEY RUBBLE CLOSETS FULL OF MYRIAD SUPPLIES... Joe Katzman: Good slide WHY NOT INSTEAD OF HAVING EMPTY CONTAINERS USE THEM AS FORTIFIED AND MOBILE LIVING SPACES?

11. WE ALREADY USE CORMEX ISO CONTAINER HOUSING MODULES…LIKE MANY OTHER NATO COUNTRIES…. ACTUAL ISO CONTAINER HOUSING MODULES USED BY U.S. ARMY IN CENTCOM AO Joe Katzman: Good slide... Next is even better

12. U.S. ARMY ALREADY USES ISO HOUSING IN BALKANS An Army LTC writes: “I really like this whole presentation. I was just in Tuzla where the forces have used ISO containers that had simple walls and roofs placed over them so that in a semi-permanent configuration there is protection from the elements unlike what we have at Bondsteel right now. A lot less wood and all of it recoverable if the design is done right. Frankly, you could easily design steel overheads and end caps for such a semi-permanent housing solution if the desire was not to dig them in. Keep pushing this concept, the more I think of how much we waste in construction and then write off when we leave the more I like the self-contained army.”

13. Why Not? Rick Atkinson's In the Company of Soldiers. Even a light infantry Air Assault Division needs 1,500 ISOs as-is now. Page 34 says: "how to get 5, 000 vehicles, 1, 500 shipping containers, 17,000 Soldiers and a couple hundred helicopters to Kuwait by mid-March in time for any attack on Iraq. Deployment occurred in three immensely complex phases: from Fort Campbell to Jacksonville, Jacksonville to Kuwait City, Kuwait City to a battle assembly area. Army logisticians called the phases fort to port, then port to port, then port to foxhole". Skipping ahead some pages you will see that after the nation-state war was over the 101st with no place to live MOVED INTO IRAQI BUILDINGS, which as we now know has been a PR disaster. Joe Katzman: Drive point home explicitly... “And all we had to do is re-use the containers instead!“

14. Guess who used ISO container BattleBoxes in war already? As bad as the Iraqis are at times technotactically, one thing they did NOT do was occupy Saddam palaces and try to fight from them. Today, Americans are still occupying dictator palaces in Iraq. In Thunder Run, Chapter 18 The Bridge starting on pages 277, Zucchino describes how Iraqis guarding the approaches to the bridge over the Tigris river where to the east the marines had yet to show up had thousands of enemy Soldiers crossing over to fight them. Denied permission to blow the bridge, they sought to physically block it with TAFVs and got engaged by well dug-in Iraqi troops in bunkers. Organic 120mm Abrams tank, 25mm Bradley and Gavin .50 caliber direct fires, and 120mm mortar indirect fires did not suppress the enemy fires and the task force led by Captain Wolford had to withdraw with several damaged tanks and wounded Soldiers. A-10s and F/A-18s were called in and did little damage. Only after the Iraqis had given up were these bunkers able to be cleared. Page 320: "At the intersection near the Jumhuriya Bridge, Wolford discovered an elaborate bunker at the southwest corner. It was made from a metal cargo container that had been buried underground. It was equipped with a thick wooden door, and inside were a desk, a nonworking military field phone, and piles of supplies--an entire command post". Joe Katzman: You know, this is a good example but the EADS products (Transhospitals & troop-carriers) are far better. The Bundeswehr is still looked up to in some ways. Also, it lets the wheeled types see containerization as something that can work with their stuff. You don’t show that elsewhere, and fine, but let them see it once so they stay out of your way,

15. Former British Army Expert William Owen: www.hescobastion.com/enter.html “The above link will give you more food for thought, as well. The idea of a robust temporary camp is completely valid. Eg- Firebases in Vietnam of Security Forts in Northern Ireland. It works, and sometime works very well in the right context. Primarily you want some place a unit/sub-unit can operate from and defend. The quicker and more flexibly you can move the base, the better, but the reasons for doing so, are not really defensive. They are more logistic. Denying your opponents the iconography of occupation is also good. BUT: Do not get lost on the detail and especially the mobility aspects. The whole idea of the container is what it will do, rather than what it was designed to. Essentially it's disposable, but what you might put inside it, is not. Low-cost flexibility is what makes the idea in my book. Do not fixate on ‘we must do it this way!’ The use of ISO containers has much merit, but it is just a tool. I think your presentation does an excellent job of showing the great potential of the intelligent and unconventional application of such tools, and should be pursued. I'll be writing an article on ISO container and UK Expeditionary Warfare operations for a magazine shortly. I'll pass you the draft copy.” Joe Katzman: Link more explicitly to HESCO’s stuff/concepts, maybe even with a slide before or after

16. LIVING SPACES 100 Men = 20 BattleBoxes, 5 men per box, food, water & ammo lockers on floor, supplies for 30+ days of combat 5 5 5 5 5 LEGEND L = Latrines S/W = Showers/Washers for Clothes CP = Command Post C = Conference R = Repair Shop F = Fuel 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 L S/W CP R F L S/W C C F LTC Larry Altersitz: “30 days/man is 3x30 MREs = 90; divided by 12 = 7.5 cases/man = 67.5 cases per 9 man squad (82.5 cases/sqd for 11). Call it 90 for mid-rats. That's not a lot of room in a battlebox. Throw in the troops' duffle/ruck, squad gear, snivel gear, 20 5-gal water cans, and you have a lot of room left for ammo and sensors. 7-ft long fold-down bunks from the walls in upper and lower pairs (4 bunks per wall), a set that folds down from the walls (towards the front) across the battlebox for 2 more troops, a cot in the middle and you have sleeping quarters for all. Stuff can be in ceiling racks for additional storage.”

17. MSG LaSalle writes: “Not to mention that the modern Quonset-style building kits in military use nest nicely and will fit inside a BattleBox for transport. A Steelmaster or K-Span kit offers inexpensive non-hardened cover while troops can immediately live in and fight from a BattleBox. I hate buzzwords, but "synergy" comes to mind here. Since a base is a mix of hard and soft structures, containers are a dandy way to get the systems on site. For additional coverage, the base channels to which most frameless metal buildings mount could be supplied in thicker gauge and fitted with twist locks at the ends for attachment to ISO box corner fittings. Alternately the top edges of some/all B-Boxes could be made as base channels/mounts. (An integrated full-edge mount strip would allow easy attachment of accessories, shields, etc.) This would let you (for example) put a couple of 40-foot B-Boxes 20 to 40 feet apart and bridge the gap with a metal "roof" made from currently available commercial parts. A 20x20 foot Steelmaster "trussless straightwall" (more space then a curved Quonset style) shell kit (I'm using that example since I own one) fits, nested, in the back of a pickup truck. A 40x40 with no walls (the B-Boxes provide these) would be similar in size, taking little precious B-Box space. Prototyping an example would take little more than parking two boxes the proper distance apart, tacking a standard base channel set along the edges, and zipping the shell together.” Joe Katzman: Neat idea. Would be worth a next slide or pre-slide graphic.

18. BattleBox scale model Joe Katzman: THIS is a checkpoint! You’ll grok later... 1: 18 scale

19. BattleBox Interior/Configuration Twin doors for air flow Insulated walls to hold in heat in winter, cool air in summer Ballistic doors have provision to fit A/C unit or fan, must be accessible if BB is below ground; lockable from outside for weapons security in CONUS but can always open from inside for safety escape Battle Against the Earth

20. Removable Kevlar top cover with hard smooth outer and slight peak forces rain water and snow from roof and acts as top insulation layer; G.I. camou net system can cover entire BB to hide from detection from above/far away ac Ideal would be a top cover with embedded solar panels to power at least overhead lights and fan if not the A/C unit, recharge small batteries for troops’ night vision devices, radios etc. so there is no noise and fuel demand from generators Smoke detector and emergency fire extinguisher pull-handle dumps foam to smother any fire throughout box Joe Katzman: Konarka is making these. Battle Against the Earth

21. Red/ Whiteoverhead light options In addition to solar and battery power, recharging by pedal power... B B B B David Butcher’s Leg crank peda-generator keeps batteries charged Wall has row of 12 volt deep-cycle batteries to power internal overhead lights and fans using RV technology with vents to outside Joe Katzman: Like these headings Battle Against the Earth

22. Peda-Generators already exist commercial off-the-shelf! (COTS) An integrated, folding highly efficient unit remains to be invented! Foot/Hand Generator Windstream Power Systems: Human Power Generator PO Box 1604 Burlington VT 05402-1604 USA Tel 802 658 0075 Fax 802 658 1098 email: info@windstreampower.com www.windstreampower.com/humanpower/hpgmk3.html Bicycle stand to generate E 12V/110V Battery Pack

23. 6 fold up/down bunks can be attached to either wall though should be wall against earth barrier to dodge blast over-pressure Two storage lockers run along bottom of BB to lock weapons, NVDs, ammo and personal items Battle Against the Earth

24. Detachable Fold up/down table with partitions for computer cubicle effect creates either a desk or place to sit/eat. Flat screen TV and DVD player on this wall could be viewed by troops from their bunks Standard issue metal folding chairs provide seats Battle Against the Earth

25. Troops can rapidly leave/enter BB Stepped Ramp/Slide: troops use steps to reach top of BB; can use other smooth side to slide down on their butts to get to ground faster; it works Battle Against the Man

26. SOA earth-filled blast walls surround Battle Box to provide Bomb, RPG, bullet and rocket protection in above- ground configuration (some walls omitted for clarity) Rhino Snot seals dirt from water/moisture; 12 walls can easily fit inside for transport Battle Against the Man

27. SOA earth-filled walls after recent tests where 5,000 pound ANFO bomb did little damage Rhino Snot seals dirt from water/moisture Joe Katzman: Added heading Battle Against the Man

28. Rhino Snot seals dirt from water/moisture Fold-up earth-filled guard tower on top of Battle Box provides 360 degree security. Earth fill between SOA blast walls and BB further protects against Bombs, RPG, bullet and rockets, all walls and guard tower fit inside BB for shipment to combat area! Battle Against the Man

29. Arm, Universal mounts on guard tower enable light, medium and heavy machine guns to be mounted with GUNSHIELDS Joe Katzman: Don’t quite get this (get gunshields, the circled arm throws me), but presume someone with the right experience will Here is an arm, universal on a M113 Gavin ACAV Battle Against the Man

30. Troop Living & Fighting = Command Post Battle Boxes Joe Katzman: Point out how many MORE mobile command posts you can add, vs, the current idea of converting an M2 or Stryker into one. Which works, but the cost... need to supplement that with this so the mobility + command capability diffuses more broadly. You'll note that if you don't install fold up/down bunks the BB can use that free wall to post a huge-ass map of the area either paper or flat screen TV/computer and you have a command post that stays mobile if you keep ANT-ISO wheels under it. If Commanding Officer wants an office space to chew out misbehaving or praise stellar performers, wall partitions could give him one half of the Battle Box for privacy etc. He can attach a bunk and sleep there if he's working late so we can get ourselves squared away N-O-W. The point of this all is that we are the exact same in training as we are in war, no more shifting gears and playing catch up to live in the field and fight. We are always ready 24/7/365 with Battle Boxes. This realization that troop living = CP means we only need one other specialty BB to get this concept moving----a Battle Box latrine/showers/washing machine unit. kitchen and medical ISO containers already exist.

31. L S/W Ground Mobility= 30 BattleBoxes moved by 15 vehicles; one movement Joe Katzman: Assuming that once you break it up from 1 movement, you want some APCs available on each end just in case, more like 3-4 movements, no? 20 feet long, 8 feet x 8 feet ISO containers F C F C Will need new twin ISO container mobilizer dollies to move two-at-a-time www.cdkmobile.com or ANT one-at-a-time in two movements L S/W CP R

32. Amaze-N-Tow Mobility = Units can self-move their own BBs 2 1 3 A scaled-up Amaze-N-Tow (ANT) could emplace and move BBs such that owning units can do this themselves! www.amaze-n-tow.com amazentow@earthlink.net (800) 688-7627

33. Amaze-N-Tow ISO: Here is an animation of the scaled-up Amaze-N-Tow ISO container (ANT ISO) to enable emplacement and movement of BBs by owning units Joe Katzman: What towing strength is needed to make this work? Important in that it sets limits re: what can pair with the concept in a pinch. Amaze-N-Tow ISO can do double-BB tows to enable units to self-move all the BBs they need/own without outside help

34. Ground Mobility by tracked, armored fighting vehicles While trucks can transport ISO container “Battle Boxes” even transportation units need to re-equip with armored, tracked AFVs to protect themselves and their cargo on the lethal, non-linear battlefields of today. This is why we advocate that combat units already with tracked AFVs have the ability to TOW their own “Battle Boxes”. Transportation units will need M113 Gavin-based XM1108 carriers with Palletized Loading System (PLS) means in the back to pick up and drop of ISO container BBs and deliver them along unpredictable, off-paved road routes, under armor and with Soldiers armed with machine guns ready to return fire. NO! YES! XM1108 Gavin

35. BBs BBs BBs Network of Outposts BattleBoxes (BBs) offer instant, ready-made defensive strongpoints for a network of patrol/security bases to be established instantly as ground is taken from the enemy. Roads/trails used as Main Supply Routes (MSRs) are critical terrain lifelines that need to be under our control using a string of BB outposts. To try to achieve the same effect with $3M each armored vehicles is not economically feasible and even the best tracked AFVs can only carry a small amount of supplies. BattleBoxes first act as force multiplier resupply “gliders” increasing lethality/sustainability by a factor of 10x, then when they are formed into defensive positions enable the TAFVs to venture out with a base to return to for rest/resupply. BattleBoxes are like a Soldier’s rucksack but for vehicles. Troops not bogged down digging individual fighting positions via instant BB positions are instantly available for patrols/raids. Climate protected and rested troops with confidence that even though they are newly arrived on the ground they have superior positional advantages fight better.

36. Check Points Vulnerable 365 Soldiers/marines so far have been killed in Iraq by car, road and human bombs or 34% of all our dead. 7 marines at a check point were killed by a car bomb in the worst incident. In a world dominated by high explosives (HE) troops on foot at a check point with some barriers and maybe a sandbagged hole in ground are not enough. The Seattle Times: Local News: Stryker Soldier, 19, killed in Iraq Date: 12/31/2004 8:02:37 AM Eastern Standard Time http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002136502_dige31m.html Fort Lewis The U.S. Department of Defense last night identified a Fort Lewis Soldier killed by an apparent car bomb in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday. U.S. Army Pfc. Oscar Sanchez, 19, from Modesto, Calif., died when a "vehicle-borne improved explosive device" struck his observation post, according to a government news release. Sanchez was a member of the Stryker Brigade Combat team and was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division.

37. DO YOU CALL THIS A CHECKPOINT? Joe Katzman: Powerful slide. Do the Croc Dundee thing and have a strong BBox “THIS is a checkpoint!” visual as your next.

38. Iraqi combat turnpike PROBLEM: Baghdad airport road not secure a. 2 KIA, 2 WIA a day b. every news cycle psyops victory for enemy c. $50-150k each truck destroyed d. recruits for AVF drying up = hollow Army e. MP roving patrols in HMMWV trucks as per Army MSR doctrine is BS not moral or working INSPIRATION: NJ turnpike idea: no matter what you do if you are on the road you WILL pay toll SOLUTION AIR squadron of leased 12 OV-1 Mohawks or bought Cessnas with sensors/weapons and missionary STOL devices Joe Katzman: Start with BattleBoxes, keep presentation focus. Have air as last bit to specifically answer mortar issue and rapid reaction.

39. ROAD Assume 100 km of road to secure every 1 km big number 1, 2, 3 etc visible from air day/night from 1, 000 meters out of effective small arms range air spotters can instantly relay sightings with ground reference at 100 km/hour plane will cover MSR 4x in 4 hour patrol, 24/7/365 may have ground sensors to detect saboteurs

40. PICKETS Consider British experience in 20s/30s: www.geocities.com/pentomicarmyagain/imperialpolicing.htm 1 x 9-man squad every 1000m in hardened iso container "battle box" patrol base www.geocities.com/strategicmaneuver/battleboxes.htm live indefinitely with own mini kitchen, shower/bathroom bunks in battle box, generator to recharge batteries, BBs filled with dirt walled check points; Guard towers 2 x M1113 Gavins or BFVs to rove/FLIR night vision surveill 3 squads per platoon, 3 PLTs per COmpany, 3 companies per BN, 3 BNs per bde = 81 squads add 19 provisional squads from BDE and BN HQs and you easily have 100+ picket squads Joe Katzman: I’m probably going to go after your battlebox pickets with mortars, if they’re close to a built-up area. ROE will prevent you from just shooting back. Similar to harassment of existing fixed bases. Good news is troops will be better protected against anything other than a direct hit. But pickets do give me as the enemy more places to harass.

41. TASKS: * mission is to search/verify every car/truck entering turnpike is not dangerous * deny anyone laying roadside bombs * must insure convoys pass through their zone safely * recover all broken vehicles/personnel if this occurs--think like a downed pilot E&E line * radio n visual contact with air spotters using km marker system * come to aid of nearby pickets if attacked Joe Katzman: Go to DID and look up “Backscatter” Bet that can be containerized too. The occasional backscatter container quietly finds car bombs and passes alerts down the line....

42. Joe Katzman: Don’t assume the reader knows what you’re talking about. If it’s necessary to talk about, SHOW. COMMENTS MSGT Mark LaSalle: “Besides their main purpose, recovery ops/wreck clearance would be easier and safer. 1000m is within range where dragging wrecks with snatch cables is practical. This would limit exposure of crews at attack sites. Don't know how many Landoll trailers they have available (I frequent tow truck boards and know they use them for recovery in Iraq), but Landolls are also a standard for delivering ISO containers.” www.landoll.com/trans.cfm Phil West: “FYI Ralph Zumbro’s concepts on MSR can be accessed directly with:” www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/strategy1.html#outpost Joe Katzman: If you’re gonna use that, go through the whole sequence then show how BBs would have short circuited it.

43. FIRE SUPPORT all 81mm, 120mm mortars spread out to cover entire length of 100 km MSR Operates own small UAVs to help spot flying under 1,000 meters to not interfere with manned air spotters QUICK REACTION FORCE (QRF) CH-47 or CH-53E helicopter squadron with 3D maneuver company size infantry QRF on call with own M113 Gavins

44. COMMENTS Phil West & Ralph Zumbro: www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/strategy1.html “About 80% down under "armoring the arteries" and below the link about the need for light observation aircraft -I can add a direct #name link on the next update if you want -what do you want it called? "#outpost"? It is not a direct quote from Ralph -just a concept when hashed out -ie I posed the problem, he solved it and I wrote it up. "Areas adjacent to MSRs need to be aggressively patrolled or occupied by both dismounted personnel and cross-country vehicles. This will deny the guerilla easy movement. When a convoy is expected in an area such a force will make pre-emptive visits to likely trouble spots. At various locations parallel to the MSR will be small bases equipped with indirect fire weapons, distanced so they can fire in defense of each other and in support of convoys. The main guns of tanks can be used in such a role as well as mortars and artillery. Convoys should be preceded by their own reconnaissance units and have engineer support. As we have so recently seen in Madrid (March, 2004), a nation's rail system is also likely to be a target, so measures for track and station security must be taken. In certain situations novel forms of transport, such as cargo airships can be used to move bulk cargoes without the need for ground travel though terrorist held areas. " Joe Katzman: Top paragraph adds nothing

45. DEFENSE

46. DISPERSED PERIMETER Joe Katzman: Not sure the bicycle patrol bit will be understood... A BB formation option would be a dispersed circle with the M113 Gavin TAFV prime mover in-between with thermal long-range surveillance bolstering the guard towers on top of the BBs. The peda-generators could be folding mountain or electric bikes that detach from stands for roving patrols inside or outside the BB perimeter...

47. William Owen’s Patrol Base Model for British Army Could easily be constructed using ISO Container Battle Boxes!

48. FORTIFIED WALLED COMPOUND PHASE I: LINKED BATTLEBOXES ON GROUND Should take 1-2 hours to arrange

49. FORTIFIED WALLED COMPOUND DIMENSIONS 160 feet or 50 meters 160 feet or 50 meters

50. BattleBoxes may have Hesco Concertainer “kangaroo pouches” on outer walls to fill with dirt/rocks to provide more ballistic protection initially, Rhino Snot seals dirt top from water/moisture One of the M113 Gavins with dozer blade quickly fills up boxes with dirt/rocks to provide extra ballistic protection. Or a small Bobcat front-end dozer. LTC Altersitz: “If the unit had 3 of its own organic Bobcat(r) type excavators, carried in a box, it could dig itself in quickly and pile up soil as additional protection around the boxes. You're already mobile (how did the boxes get there?), so any additional weight is minimal. Almost make a Bobcat a mobile protected machinegun/HVGL vehicle, with a little armor over the wheels/cab, use an M240 or Mk19 on the cab roof. Have it with the QRF; stop a LOT of idiots in their tracks when they got hit by a very light armor section ;-))).”