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schon kommt die erste kritik an den beschlossenen umgliederungen auf - von defense industry daily:

HQ Bloat, Combat Loss in US Army's BCT Re-org?
One of the centerpieces of the US Army's transformation plan has been its proposal to break down divisions into something called "Brigade Combat Teams." The idea is that the US would be able to deploy the brigades with minimal support from higher-level HQ, something like the US Marine Corps' pioneering MEUs. [...]
Now some studies prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) on behalf of the Pentagon's Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate make the case that the result will actually be something else: growth of HQ staff at the expense of combat troops, reducing maneuver batalions by 20% while growing headquarters by 11.5%. [...]

der bereicht auf dem der obere artikel basiert: von <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,86397,00.html">http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,86397,00.html</a><!-- m --> :

Study Faults Army Brigade Team Plan
A study prepared for the Defense Department has found an Army plan to reorganize its forces into “brigade combat teams” will reduce net fighting capability rather than strengthen it, contrary to the service's vision. [...]
But to increase brigades without boosting overall manpower of the service, officials say they must strip each brigade of one “maneuver” battalion composed of infantry troops or heavy arms. Army leaders say they can field just two such battalions per brigade, rather than the traditional three, in part because each brigade will also have a reconnaissance battalion for support. The move results in a net loss of 40 maneuver battalions, according to analysts. [...]
Adding a third maneuver battalion to each of the Army's heavy BCTs, for example, “better leverages [brigade] overhead by increasing infantry squads and tanks by 50 percent,” IDA writes. The Army's own “Task Force Modularity studies found a straight line correlation between the number of combat platoons (made up of squads or tanks) and the level of success of the BCT,” according to the organization.

In fact, the same Army study also found that in testing the BCTs in war games, “in most two-battalion cases, commanders traded the reconnaissance potential of some or most of the reconnaissance troops for the flexibility a third maneuver element provides,” according to an IDA briefing. [...]
Still, according to the Army officer interviewed this week, the service “didn't dismiss [the IDA analysis] offhand or embrace it purely as written.” The papers are still under review, this source says. [...]

war das nicht zu erwarten ? ich denke, das sich die bundeswehr mit ihren starken brigaden auf dem richtigen weg befindet ...