The Roles and Weapons with the Squad

[jcustis]

The US answered the question with the Stryker which came out of our Iraq experience. But will it work in a bigger more intense battlefield?

Which expoerience was that...OIF, or Op Desert Storm?

RSTA squadron doctrine was already being published (with Strykers symbolized in the print vice Brads) as late as 2002.

[Ken White]

Which expoerience was that...OIF, or Op Desert Storm?

RSTA squadron doctrine was already being published (with Strykers symbolized in the print vice Brads) as late as 2002.

pressure on the Army to 'modernize.' They talked about and tested tracks and wheels in 2000-2001 -- came up with tracks are better but there's nothing out there now (then) light enough. Solution: develop lighter tracks (FCS), buy an interim wheeled vehicle. It was acknowledged there were better wheel vehicles available than the Stryker but since this was an interim buy, the decision was made to go with the cheapest wheeled vehicle that had been judge adequate. Or in version 2, one of Shinseki's cronies went to work for General Dynamics which were in process of buying GM Canada, producer of the vehicle under license from Mowag of Switzerland (also later bought by GD...). Take your pick.

Iraq had nothing to do with the purchase of the Stryker.