Engineer Support to Future Full-Spectrum Operations

Abstract

Afghanistan and Iraq has shown that current warfare is a brigade commander's fight. With the transformation to modularized BCTs, it is clear that future combat will continue to be executed at the BCT level. The nature of full spectrum combat also points to a continually changing environment that will require these BCTs to transition from stability to major combat operations rapidly and often. The Engineer Regiment also has transformed in order to be better prepared to face the future threats. The result of that transformation has been a modularized Echelon Above Brigade force and a smaller engineer presence in the BCTs. The current BCT structure is very under represented by engineer forces and does not provide the BCT commander with adequate assets to complete the missions he is likely to face. By reviewing the future operational environment, the brigade combat team organization design, and the current engineer transformation plan, this project will attempt to identify the gaps in the current engineer transformation plan. It will then argue that reorganization of a portion of the engineer battalions into multifunctional battalions in direct support of BCTs is an effective way of bridging that gap.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA478311

Entities

People

  • Thomas O'hara

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Construction
  • Education
  • Engineers
  • Force Structure
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Spectra
  • Stability Operations
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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