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8K. H. Lowe, "US Mobilization for Reinforcing Western Europe," in J. Simon, (Ed.), NATO Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1988), 103.
10Senate, Committee on Armed Forces, Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection, Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982: Part 4, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981, 1755, Statement of Lt. Gen. P. Gorman, Director for Plans and Policy, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. alternatives.11 Sea lift operations are flexible, and in this context, they are superior to prepositioning, unless the prepositioned forces are located in the area of fighting. Sea lift operations are also vulnerable to enemy attack.
No one of the options available for the logistics support of general purpose force employment provides an optimal solution to the problem. The American approach to the solution of the problem
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