The Airship's Potential for Intertheater and Intratheater Airlift

By Donald E. Ryan

This paper asserts there exists a dangerous GAP in US strategic intertheater transportation capabilities, propounds a model describing the GAP, and proposes a solution to the problem.

Logistics requirements fall into three broad, overlapping categories: Immediate, Mid-Term, and Sustainment requirements. These categories commence and terminate at different times depending on the theater of operations, with Immediate being the most time sensitive and Sustainment the least. They are:
1. Immediate: War materiel needed as soon as combat forces are inserted into a theater of operations in order to enable them to attain a credible defensive posture.
2. Mid-Term: War materiel, which strengthens in-place forces and permits expansion to higher force levels.
3. Sustainment: War materiel needed to maintain combat operations at the desired tempo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1288306210
• ISBN13: 9781288306213
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"