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Military Movements and Supply Lines as Comparative Interdiction Targets.

AD711639

Publication Date	1970
Personal Author	Higgins, J. W.
Page Count	20
Abstract	An initial attempt to provide a quantitative basis for comparing military unit movements with unit-supply lines as targets for interdiction. Based on U.S. Army unit tables of equipment and standard supply planning factors, the analysis shows that a division movement is considerably more vulnerable to attacks directed against road capacity than that division's supply line would be. Even with all assumptions biased in favor of mobility (no traffic congestion, no vehicle breakdowns, no command control problems, POL available as needed), road movement of an infantry division consumes 6 to 8 times as much of a road's surge capacity as its daily combat resupply consumes of the road's average steady-state capacity. For rail movement, the redeployment/resupply ratio is very large, varying from 127 to 145 times the railroad capacity needed for resupply. (Author)
Keywords	Armed Forces transportation Vulnerability Military tactics Logistics Roads Railroads Counterinsurgency Mobility Deployment Statistical data Interdiction
NTIS Subject Category	74H - Nuclear Warfare
Corporate Authors	Rand Corp Santa Monica Calif
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	197021
Contract Number	F44620-67-C-0045

Military Movements and Supply Lines as Comparative Interdiction Targets.

Military Movements and Supply Lines as Comparative Interdiction Targets.
AD711639

Publication Date	1970
Personal Author	Higgins, J. W.
Page Count	20
Abstract	An initial attempt to provide a quantitative basis for comparing military unit movements with unit-supply lines as targets for interdiction. Based on U.S. Army unit tables of equipment and standard supply planning factors, the analysis shows that a division movement is considerably more vulnerable to attacks directed against road capacity than that division's supply line would be. Even with all assumptions biased in favor of mobility (no traffic congestion, no vehicle breakdowns, no command control problems, POL available as needed), road movement of an infantry division consumes 6 to 8 times as much of a road's surge capacity as its daily combat resupply consumes of the road's average steady-state capacity. For rail movement, the redeployment/resupply ratio is very large, varying from 127 to 145 times the railroad capacity needed for resupply. (Author)
Keywords	Armed Forces transportation Vulnerability Military tactics Logistics Roads Railroads Counterinsurgency Mobility Deployment Statistical data Interdiction
NTIS Subject Category	74H - Nuclear Warfare
Corporate Authors	Rand Corp Santa Monica Calif
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	197021
Contract Number	F44620-67-C-0045