Caveat
Its time to Join the MOB; Mobile Off-Shore Base, That Is
Caveat
America is being bankrupted by military incompetents who insist that we have 120, 000 troops in Iraq and 100, 000 troops in Afghanistan to prop up corrupt governments there that is costing us over $100 BILLION a year that only lines the pockets of war profiteers making junk trucks that are restricted to roads/trails and murders our troops, whose deaths enrage the gullible American populace to want to "kill more ragheads". The problem is that Iraq did not have anything to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, nor were the CIA created and funded "al whatevers" from Afghanistan the chief instigators, either. The building explosions on 9/11 were false flag attacks instigated by the U.S. Government (USG) and its fellow AmeroNazi corporate criminals to feed their own greed and ego by seizing the oil and drug resources of Iraq and Afghanistan while creating insurgencies for Americans to ride in wearing the "white hat" to play either the military or humanitarian assistance "hero".
The AFPAK "Gordion Knot" Mess
The southern half of the U.S. are populated by AmeroNazis who have no clue about what being an American who follows his moral conscience based on FACTS is all about; they want to blindly follow a mythically exceptional king/queen/mommy/daddy/dictator/government so they can live lives of materialistic consumption and false heroics. They are not innocent in any of this. The AmeroNazis are run by the Rockefeller Illuminati crime family that is obsessed with violence (they put Hitler into power to instigate WW2) that wants ultimately for nuclear war to break-out between Pakistan's 180 million and India's 1, 200 million people to depopulate the world towards their goal of 6 billion murdered from the current 7 billion--so the world will be more comfortable for them to rule.
Application
At face value (AFV) there is no morally-sound reason to occupy Iraq--but as President Obama stated in his recent address to the nation from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, "Afghanistan is a threat to the U.S."--if you believe the delusion that the 9/11 attacks were staged from there--so therefore, we must "flood-the-place with U.S. troops". AFV, this is also a lie because the only military options available to us are NOT just to flood tan and green Afghanistan with American gunslingers wearing absurd Army ACUPAT gray or to leave. Our only options are not just to either occupy or leave. If AFV, Afghanistan's instability were indeed a threat to U.S. citizens by sub-national terror group attack, then this could be solved PRE-emptively by building a sensor-security fence system to secure its borders from Pakistani "Taliban" Islamics directed and funded by the CIA franchise operation, the ISI. Details:
AFPAK Solution #1
If however, the REAL situation is the Pashtun tribes don't want to be a part of the drug-corrupt Karzai central government, then give them a chunk of land they live on and build the sensor-security fence in front of them--and wish them a happy Islamic life. Bye Bye! We have done this before to places like East Pakistan that became Bangladesh, so don't say it cannot be done when its done all the time. Detach "Pashtunistan" from Afghanistan and tell them they are no longer a part of the Afghanistan nation-state. If President Karzai wants to keep the $60B a-year drug trade flowing out of Afghanistan he can have his border guards look-the-other-way at sensor-security fence checkpoints. However, America would have provided TANGIBLE and COMPETENT military assistance--and could then promptly leave Afghanistan to the Afghans so we are not going broke keeping the place flooded with U.S. troops and nation-builders.
Of course, the sensor-security fence system would stabilize AFPAK and help pre-empt an Indo-Pakistan nuclear war by forcing Islamics to "get a life" and stop playing Mujihadeen in their neighbor's backyard. The secret elites will of course, not want to pre-empt the disaster they lust for.
AFPAK Solution #2: QRF in the Region
Moreover, there is also a POST-emptive military option for Afghanistan--we can have a large Quick Reaction Force (QRF) nearby ready to strike IF (ha ha) the "al whatevers" should attack America--ie; the traitors within stage another false flag attack. AFV, we could then drop Paratroopers with light tanks and shoot up all the evil commie, ehh ragheads we want to appease American people blood lust for "revenge" against the designated patsies--and then leave. We would not squat on the local people's land with humongous Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) complete with slices of consumerist garrison Americana that incites rebellion and guerrilla wars. The QRF would be based nearby AT SEA and not irritate anyone by occupying someone else's nation-state lands.
Now apply the caveat. The sound military options of sensor-security fence and at-sea QRFs contradict the goals of the secret elites to destroy the individual of conscience, max profits and de-populate. In contrast, a MORAL and PROFESSIONAL military man should offer to do them if nothing else but to EXPOSE THE BANKRUPTCY of the false military options of either occupation or abandonment. Its time we leave one "mob" and join another--the Joint Mobile Offshore Base or "MOB" for short. It would be a reduced-size racket that we can afford and it would be MORAL.
Why a MOB?
The first question you may ask is why not just stage aircraft carriers with marines continuously in the Indian ocean to respond to any sub-national conflict (SNC) threats?
The USN and Mc are incompetent--in 1991 during Operation DESERT STORM Saddam's sea mines put into the water by backing trucks up exploded several Navy ships and the marines couldn't even land. Even if they somehow could be put ashore, the marines will have their asses kicked as we saw in 1975 when they landed in USAF helicopters onto Koh Tang island beaches covered by enemy machine gun fire. Several flaming helicopters and burnt bodies later, the marines themselves had to be rescued just before being over-run, but at the cost of 10 marines left behind on the island. Even if the marines made it ashore, they will foot-slog and drive in wheeled trucks or bloated amtracks getting themselves killed by land mines, RPGs and automatic weapons attacks as we see daily in Iraq/Afghanistan against mere rebels. How the USMC would suffer against a nation-state war enemy can be seen in the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco where they trained and advised a Cuban brigade made into mirror images of themselves that soon found itself surrounded by Castro tanks and pinned down by high explosive (HE) artillery fire as they ran out of ammo. Details:
www.combatreform.org/airbornebayofpigs.htm
The point is the USN/Mc WW2 Iwo Jima re-enactment racket is FUBAR; after all these years and $BILLIONS of dollars, at best it can plop simplistic foot-slogger victims ashore--because HQMC cannot make its mind up if it wants to be a highly-skilled commando force or a mini-land maneuver army--so it does NEITHER.
www.combatreform.org/AIRBORNEMUSEUM/sld026.htm
This military incompetence is a function of malignant narcissism that drives USMC culture based on the lie of WW2 that naval power in the side-show war against the low-tech Japanese in the Pacific was somehow decisive when it wasn't even relevant to the actual mortal threat high-tech Germans we fought in Europe. Even in the Pacific, the war was won primarily by the U.S. ARMY and its AIR FORCE under General MacArthur who maneuvered troops to take LAND BASES where runways and ports were then built and full-power aircraft and land maneuver combat forces were deployed. Details:
www.combatreform.org/midwaymyth.htm
Don't get me wrong, the USN/Mc are also without a convenient small ship excuse; they could be loading up their amphibious ships with light tanks with cross-country mobility and armor protection to be a kick-ass cavalry force that could force its way ashore and maneuver with overmatch against any opponent--SNC or even nation-state war (NSW)--but the weak USMC ego wants to rifleman foot-slog. Details:
www.combatreform.org/ARMORHISTORY/amphibiousinfantrytanks.htm
On the Navy side, there are limits to the type and QUALITY of aircraft that can be shot into the air from their aircraft carriers (ships with short runways on top). Planes that are shot into the air by CATapults and ARrested by tail-hooks and wires (CATBAR) compromise their flight performance by the weight of their landing gear and structural strengthening required to crash onto the deck again and again. Moreover, their overall size is limited to less than 2 engines due to the size limits of the carrier itself. The Navy is further at fault here for not fielding contra-rotating prop engines from the British to get more power for its planes in a more compact size and for its carrier "mafia" bureaucracy eliminating its seaplane rivals out of existence. Details:
www.combatreform.org/p6mseamaster.htm
A seaplane isn't size-limited by a carrier deck and has the entire ocean to land on and could be very large to bombard the enemy more efficiently than launching lawn-dart, fighter-bombers and can deliver troops with light tanks ashore--IF the corrupt USN and MC were interested--which they are not. Details:
The proposed British Habakkuk carrier dwarves a Nimitz-class carrier above and an Iowa-class battleship below
The crafty but cash-strapped British realized this in WW2 (we still haven't realized it). The essential functional problem of an aircraft carrier is its not LARGE enough to carry full-performance, land aircraft but must carry compromised designs that lack punch. One of their inventors discovered that if you mix ice with sawdust it doesn't melt right away. He suggested that a HUGE aircraft carrier be built for the cold North Atlantic so full-sized 4-engined patrol planes could operate there and smother the German submarine (U-Boat) threat that preyed on the gaps in our air coverage created by the range limits of these patrol planes operating from land. While being a giant ship, it was in fact a mobile offshore base (MOB).
Today, we can create a huge MOB without having to resort to ice using off-shore oil drilling platform technologies. Popular Mechanics magazine reports on the Joint MOB proposal underway in DoD in 2003--before Iraq land base racketeering took over:
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281531.html?page=
Logistics are and always have been the key to success in modern warfare. So there is much about the JMOB that impresses military planners. BWX estimates that a 5-module JMOB would have room for 3, 500 vehicles, 5, 000 cargo containers and 150 aircraft. Of the 5 million sq. ft. of space, 3.5 million sq. ft., roughly 80 acres, would be climate controlled. It would be so large that the military could pre-position 300,000 tons of equipment, 75 million gal. of fuel and 50 million gal. of potable water, says LaPlante. The ONR estimates a JMOB could house an Army heavy brigade of about 3, 000 troops.
New Design Rules
The multiple functions and extreme size of a JMOB would make it unique among floating structures, says Dennis Wright, a vice president for Houston-based Kellogg Brown & Root, which says its expertise in designing deep-water drilling platforms is the key to linking modules at sea.
The ONR mission statement that has guided the project's development since 1996 gives some idea of what is involved. In addition to being massive, the JMOB would have to be stable enough to allow fixed-wing cargo aircraft, such as a C-17, to operate in Sea State 6 conditions. Sea State numbers run from 0 (dead calm) to 12 (hurricane conditions). Sea State 6 is characterized by 22- to 27-knot winds, and white, foam-crested, 10-ft. waves with sea spray.
Experience in building large containerized cargo vessels and precisely positioned deep-water oil-drilling platforms has solved most of the engineering problems. "It is a proven commercial technology," says Wright.
The big challenge will be connecting them. And, once assembled there will be the problem of long-term, station-keeping during hurricanes and other severe weather conditions. Because U.S. forces train to fight in all weather, JMOBs must be capable of transferring personnel and materiel to shore-going vessels in conditions up to and including Sea State 3. Finally, each unit must be built to take the punishing conditions of ocean life for 40 years.
Thus far, computer simulations and hydrodynamic tests of a one-sixtieth-scale model by the Naval Surface Warfare Center have confirmed that a floating base is workable.
While the Navy has yet to sign off on the project, insiders tell Popular Mechanics that as much as $1 billion could be earmarked for acquiring the first building blocks of a floating fortress--as early as the end of the decade.
Unfortunately, the USN ship racketeers are NOT going to sign-off on anything that threatens their BS aircraft carrier racket. Their greed and ego will not allow it, so the U.S. ARMY should be the ones who own and operate the MOB as a defacto artificial LAND base. Estimates are that the MOB can travel at 15 mph so in a 24-hour period, it could be 360 miles away from its last location to evade targeting by potential enemies. The MOB's primary use would be for SNCs; in NSW, it could be used against less sophisticated enemies lacking long-range precision guided weapons; if not, the MOB can move to safety outside of PGM range or even move back to the U.S. While anti-PGM missiles are a must, its unwise to expect them to stop all threats and foolishly stay in the area as the USN assumes with its flimsy surface ship mentality.
Benefits of an U.S. Army MOB
SNC
The QRF manning the MOB in the Indian Ocean could be either based around C-130 air transportability (light tanks under 20 tons) or C-17 air-transportability (under 70 tons). We can parachute airdrop vehicles up to 30 tons, so a stripped-down Bradley fighting vehicle is a possible ground platform though the 10.5 ton M113 Gavin which can be flown by C-130s should be the baseline since there is no performance advantage to be gained by the flawed design Bradley heavier vehicle. A Gavin Brigade Combat Team (GBCT) would be ready to take-off immediately from the MOB and parachute drop anywhere within C-130 and/or C-17 range to raid, kill and capture enemy sub-national groups and then return to base. Fitting an air-cushion landing system (ACLS) to the C-130 would speed the recovery of the GBCT by enabling almost any flat area to be an assault landing zone; not just ones whose ground is firm enough for the wheels supporting a 150, 000 pound Hercules transport. Details:
Escorting the GBCT force package could be any USAF fighters; be they F-15s, F-16s, F-22s, F-35s or something new like Sprey's Swarm Fighters. Providing close and maneuver air support could be A-10s or something new like Myers' Killer Bees/ASPs. Details:
www.combatreform.org/killerbees.htm
www.combatreform.org/killerbees4.htm
On-the-ground, the GBCT would fire & maneuver with superior, cross-country mobility to avoid land mines on roads to hit the enemy where he least expects it, denying him the sanctuary of closed terrain types by virtue of its M113 Super Gavin low-ground pressure, stealthy band tracks. Though light, the Super Gavins would have superior protection by v-hull shaping and multiple armor layering that wheeled trucks are 28% less capable of. Powerful high explosive (HE) shells from Super Gavin automatic cannon and 120mm mortar tubes would reach out into high ground hills and mountains or through thick mud walls to suppress or flush-out rebels so our dismounted infantry can finish them off.
NSW
The Army owns the world's largest fleet of logistics over-the-shore (LOTS) landing craft and barges to make floating causeways. The Army has cargo ships with pre-positioned vehicles and supplies to formulate full-power land brigades ashore. The MOB would be a launching pad for the QRF GBCT to seize & hold both air-heads and beach-heads for the APS-3 ships to off-load and the Soldiers to operate them to marry up.
An even more bold action would be for the QRF GBCT to 3D seize & maneuver deploying from the MOB to locate and kill/capture enemy leader fleeing from our 2D maneuver push coming ashore from the APS-3 re-constituted brigade.
Summary/Conclusion: the MOB doesn't want the MOB, We Should do it Anyway
This proposal will not be evaluated on its merits because they scream out for its implementation. The MOB option for Southwest Asia to have a QRF would be morally, financially and militarily sound--which the mob that runs the world into ruin is against. Let it be known and for you the reader to be aware--that this notion that the only military options for us in Afghanistan is to either occupy or depart is a lie.
We need to join a new MOB; one that wins.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."
--Dr. Martin Luther King
