Chapter 19

The Command Force, Service Support Force, Sea Force, Air Force and Land Force

by Hugh M. Lewis

The command force is a specially integrated hierarchy designed to replace in the model of the universal elite the secondary staff functions, the command control administration carried on by officers in conventional forces, as a means of facilitating command, control, coordination and communication functions in the upper command levels, as a means for providing a minimum centralized structure, and as a means for providing comprehensive civilian control in a maximum decentralized force over critical military decisions, including the use of nuclear weaponry and the utilization of conventional forces. It is a means for providing for an integrated single command structure many of the administration and upper level command functions which are normally carried out by officer chain of command in the conventional model. It is basically a second echelon, administration organization which through integration is designed to increase critical command nodal channel capacity with a reduced number of personnel. It is a second echelon force in that its lowest decentralized level is the corporate landing team, below this level individual company teams and squads carry out their own integrated command functions.

Intelligence is ultimately the mission and primary function of the command force. Adequate intelligence, of relative omniscience about all relevant information must precede realization of force and ultimately decisive success in battle. Vastly superior intelligence capabilities, omniscient, decisive, immediate, spontaneous, relevant and integrative is more important to the success of the model of the universal elite over even vastly larger conventional forces than any other single operant factor. Intelligence is the primary mission and function of the command force. It is intelligence shed of its hypocritical restrictions, of its limited human channel capacities, of its human subjectivity, inferences, distortions of inter-human divisiveness and communication gaps, of decisional errors and miscalculations, of waste of mistaken representations, of false father images, pedagogical or divine spiritual mystification. This is another area of the model in which human weaknesses are purposefully minimized while human decision making capacity is made vastly superior.

Intelligence is its primary function. It is the means of providing through communication of vital information, the coordination of force realization between the front echelon forces and of logistical resupply. It is both the horizontal and vertical integration network uniting the separate forces together into a single efficient organizational structure. It functions to tap all available intelligence sources. It is also in charge of all counter intelligence operations. It provides comprehensive coordination of efforts from all forces of every force service group. It monitors the whole world simultaneously and omnisciently, providing continually updated intelligence and information, tactical, logistical, geographical, meteorological, demographical, etc. While the other force services are concerned primarily with either tactical or logistical matters, the primary concern of the command force is strategic in nature.

The means of providing this comprehensive control is by the integration into the human system supplemental electronic capabilities by new electronic and computer technology which is replicative and independently yet comprehensively interconnected and interdependent in all command structures and at every level. The corporate landing team will have primarily regional coordination capabilities. The intermediate command levels of the corps are more or less nodal points providing integration of information received from below and laterally and transmission of pertinent information to individual sub-units. This level is capable of a wider zone of coordination and has intermediate level computer memory storage banks. The force service group level of the command force is a set of four independently operable, interconnected and inter-functioning command stations on each floating island with extensive intelligence monitoring and processing capabilities, on board submarines, aircraft and surface vessels and on ground bases. These are capable of world wide comprehensive control of information and coordination of the whole of the universal elite. It features reception and transmission capabilities from and to every sub-unit of organizational command force, a world computer with complete electronic mapping capability with tremendous storage and information processing capabilities.

Comprehensive control consists of augmenting at the corps level and at the force service group level both a primary staff whose functions include command decision making and a set of interrelated secondary staff functions, which include controlling intelligence operations, personnel and administration operations, training operations, maintenance and supply operations and governmental, public relations functions. The primary staff consists of a group composed of the higher ranking leaders from each force service. Their function is to discuss, criticize and investigate problems, to provide technical advice and professional evaluation from their respective fields and to formulate constructive compromise decisions and plans of action. This primary staff group will function at the corporate landing team, the corps and the force service group levels. The secondary staff groups composed of members from the special fields of each force service provide special data and technical advice and planning concerning the special staff functions of each respective force service, and to control comprehensively the functions within each special force service. The members of the primary staff group will be the leaders of their respective secondary staff group.

The command force is a means of providing decentralized civilian control over all military operations while at the same time providing a necessary comprehensive coordination of all separate forces. It is a means of providing timely and functional decisiveness as a prerequisite and integral part of a comprehensive world wide strategy of flexible response. It is a vital prerequisite to the success of the model of the universal elite. The relative size of the constituency of this force will be extremely small. Only the most intelligent, educated, and select will be eligible for this service. Their primary functions will be as communications, electronics, coding, command, planning and decision making experts. The promotion and choosing of leaders within this command force will be the most rigorous and selective, and independent in command authority from the other force services. It will be focused squarely on the cultivation of the human valuation, of qualification rather than at quantity or force size.

The service force is a comprehensively integrated second echelon organizational structure designed to provide all logistical support and supplemental service activities within the universal elite. It represents a single, non-duplicative, logistical train flow process and emergency reserve system. It is a second echelon force providing medical, logistical supply, special service, entertainment, food, consumer goods, maintenance services, repair and replacement of parts and machines, equipment, personnel administration services, transfers, reinforcements, leave, orders and records, military governmental and judicial functions, military police and internal security, lawyer services, engineering and construction services, educational and training services. It is a decentralized logistical force filling out the command force structure. It's mission is to provide unlimited logistical services to completely support all activities and tactical force applications of the universal elite. Its command structure is designed to provide organizational analysis, computer supported systems, etc. to every area of operation. The conventional promotional system and rank structure is probably the least applicable to this service force, being the most highly professionalized, the least "military" and the most varied in occupational functions. They fall under and fill out the secondary and tertiary staff functions. The logistical operations fall under general categories of: communications, intelligence and computer programming; special services functions including recreational activities; food services and consumer services; logistical supply including all items of equipment, food, parts, ammunition, etc.; medical services; maintenance services including specialized equipment repair services, engineering and mechanical services, construction, plumbing, etc. ; educational services including military education, military testing, simulations, models and gaming; military governmental activities including military police, judicial and legal systems and a means of establishing military civilian relations, personnel administration services, pay, records, orders. The service support force is the most "civilian" oriented branch of the universal elite.

The logistical train will be shortened or compresses as much as possible by placing as much logistical support activities up forward, within first echelon capabilities, augmented by an up front comprehensive emergency reserve system, by computer automation and comprehensive coordination, by operationally set logistically limitations, standard daily flow rates and expenditure limitations, by an inverted supply system designed to place up forward many diverse miniature elements leaving room in the rear storage areas for bulky, quickly used materials, by simplification and reduction of the net number of logistical components, by inter-transferability of parts, equipment, ammunition, etc. by incorporating materials from indigenous resources, food, supplies purchased from the native population on equitable grounds, recycling of reusable components and materials, reloading of ammunition, encouraging only secondary reliance on standard rear to front systems. The objective is increasing the volume of logistical flow, to and from the logistical front, to meet every predictable logistical need and any possible unforeseen need, at maximum rates of force expenditures with a series of emergency backup, reserve systems designed to compensate for and buffer against the shocks of the logistical flow, to minimize the logistical snowball process by minimizing bureaucratic red tape, by increased computer coordinated automation and mechanization by immediate receipt upon verbal request by widening the horizontal flow capabilities, and shortening the vertical flow necessities, by the inter-transferability of components, setting maximum standard flow rates of components, to eliminate the under supply-oversupply sequence, to bring the process of economical efficiency, ecological balance and cyclical regeneration into the logistical process as much as possible as far forward as possible. By including logistical command power in the primary staff group, by the process of up fronting, simplification through integration and comprehensive reduction, by making the logistical process a distinct and separate function, logistical problems can be minimized while logistical capabilities can be maximized.

Medical services include an auxiliary evacuation team of ambulances and paramedics of 20 vehicles per corps, of jeeps, vans, buses for evacuation, placing as much capability as possible up to the front echelon, by developing advanced technical capabilities, by supplying advanced first aid kits, self aid facilities, by reducing inherent vulnerability of combat personnel, by increasing defensive life support potentialities, by reserve blood and plasma supplies at the first aid level, by squad and squadron centralized medical facilities. The purpose of such forward placement of equipment, services and know how is to bring medical aid as soon as possible. Once evacuation is accomplished it can be a straight to the rear process, without stopovers, to complete medical facilities on board hospital ships or floating islands hospitals. A reserve intermediate field station and ship aid stations network can supplement this primary flow to the rear in times of overflow or in case of minor rehabilitative cases. The intermediate field station is a helicopter transportable field hospital which is set up at the corporate landing team air strip. Reinforcement can be immediate by keeping on board the evacuation vehicles fresh replacements of the required number or by keeping reserve replacement pools at the CLT areas.

Maintenance service may be simplified by placing as far forward repair equipment and tools, manuals, and spare parts. Reserve parts and equipment pools can be maintained as far forward as possible to supplement immediate replacement. By reducing standardizing bolt and nut sizes of all components, vehicles, as much as possible, by integrating and reducing the types of weapons employed, by a process of overall simplification through integrating the amount of maintenance, manpower requirements, the number of tools, the technical know how can be simultaneously reduced. Maintenance services may consist of a small force of technical specialists in specific fields, augmented by a comprehensive program of handiwork in all maintenance fields.

Special services functions can be simplified by a reserve food rationing system as far forward as possible. This included a large one month supply of emergency survival rations, small liquid filled plastic pouches with complete high caloric and vitamin and nutritional requirements, augmented by aluminum can rations of two weeks supplies per man, on board vehicles and augmented further by a two week freeze dried squad and squadron K-rations supply with mess utensils and cooking apparatus. These are further augmented by liquid refreshment and fresh water supplies. At the CLT airfields the mess facilities, exchange services, showers, movies, etc. which are air transportable by helicopter can be established. The personnel from the special services also manage the mess facilities, exchange facilities, recreational facilities, club facilities, on board ships permanent land bases and floating islands.

By placing engineering capabilities as far forward as possible, engineering requirements can be reduced, by the use and employment of sand bagging, indigenous building materials, incorporating shovels, fork lifts, blades on all combat vehicles, by minimizing field construction to tents and bunkers, and easily transportable prefabricated trailer-helo liftable structures. Standard materials, structures and designs will be utilized. The engineer organizational structure can resemble more or less the traditional military structure, a special engineering company of about 20 special engineering vehicles per corps, equipped with special equipment, to construct a forward based mission airfield, an extension of the floating island ashore, and connected with up to one hundred miles of transportation transmission and communication lines to port facilities. The purpose of these forward missions, one per corps, is to duplicate the functions of the floating islands ashore, in order to simplify logistical problems and shorten the logistical train to the front.

The military governmental force and military police force consists of legal lawyer teams, public relations teams, peace corps workers who assist and aid refugees in war areas, judicial authorities who try military and civilian crimes, military police who enforce the law throughout the universal elite and maintain domestic and internal security, fire departments and emergency specialist teams who assist in any number of diverse operations. The need for adequate military government to release the unit commander of legal and judicial burdens and functions to spend more time in tactical applications, to persecute up front war crimes and to provide equitable representation of the native human rights of indigenous civilians and displaced refugees, must be satisfied more adequately than in the usual way. The failure of the application of justice within all military activities is a common deficiency of the conventional military model. It is a deficiency which is to be eradicated in the model of the universal elite.

Mention has been made of missions. These are land based inland extensions from the coastal regions approximately 100 miles of the resource capabilities, tactical and logistical, except for purely strategic functions and capabilities, of the corps floating island. It is the rapid duplication on a land air base of all the equipment and storage capabilities of a floating island. The materials needed for the establishment of a single mission will be stored aboard the floating islands to be deployed into a war zone. The purpose of the mission will be to establish well inland the extended capabilities of a floating island, to provide comprehensive immediate logistical and tactical support to the front, to establish judicial security over the entire peripheral and domestic region, to provide shelter for refugees, transfer points for POW's, rear recreational areas for front line forces, to block enemy forces from access to coastal regions with extensive defense networks. As much as possible, the materials for this missions will be standardized and prefabricated to facilitate and shorten constructive time, utilizing double rows of high chain linked fences filled in with sand bags, tents, prefabricated piping, barbed wire, entrapments, mines, electronic detection and surveillance devices, mines, etc. The design of these missions will be standardized as much as possible with as many indigenous materials incorporated into its construction. These missions will go underground as much as possible, not building up but with the process of time building down with reinforce concrete layers of storage caves and transportation tunnels. Eventually all missions of a front line will become inter-linked by well defended transportation and communication lines, crisscrossing and segmenting the valuable coastal access regions into defensible zones to reduce potential guerrilla activity and buildup and to increase security over the periphery regions. The mission program is a massive construction effort of inter-linking defense systems to deprive the enemy of access to valuable coastal regions. Behind this protective mission network peace forces and financial assistance to the devastated areas and peoples can be securely brought into play to undo destruction and heal wounds.

The mission of the educational training forces is to provide the instructor, teacher, MSG operator and educational computer programmer service to all areas of the universal elite. It is to provide a faculty of highly trained educators to be employed across the whole range of the proposed military curriculum, to publish all "official" publications, to monitor and assess all educational development trends, to promote a program of self education and professionalization and comprehensive specialization, to apply new techniques and methods of instruction to new areas, to explore, research and development all potential developments, to provide extensive documentation of training, education, sociological surveys, profiles, case studies, etc.

All these fundamental areas and work groups of the service support force have their own distinctive and most suitable social systems and promotional and operational systems. Their leaders all form what might be members of a tertiary staff advisory groups from each special field, who proffer technical advice and assistance to the secondary and even primary staff groups. The leaders of this advisory group form the membership of the service support force to the secondary and primary staff groups. These members of the secondary staff group select from among them the member for the primary staff group.

The service support force provides the life to the model of the universal elite, it is the operational inner network of organizational structure, the anatomy of the model. It provides the rear echelon impetus, the means to the attainment of the front echelon ends, the expression of force and the scope for tactical success. Its mission is to provide unlimited means relative to feasible world wide needs of the universal elite. It achieves this through maximum decentralization and simplification of the logistical process through reductive and comprehensive integration and the maximum qualitative valuation of the individual human potential.

Together the command force and the service support force meet all the prerequisites for the rear echelon activities and organs for the model of the universal elite. The existence of these rear echelon forces is dependent upon the ultimate purpose of expression of tactical force provided by the three front echelon forces, the sea force, the land force and the air force.

The sea force is a front echelon tactical force designed to provide comprehensive control of all the sea lanes, to provide at sea air bases for aircraft, sea lift capacity for the logistical force, floating command centers for the command force, and sea transport and amphibious envelopment for land forces. All sea vessels, support, tactical, strategic and service vessels, will be manned, maintained and operated by members of the sea force. The sea force is predicated on providing for the maritime portion of a comprehensive elementary grand strategy of the model of the universal elite. All strategic nuclear weapons on board sea going vessels will be serviced by personnel of the sea force.

Maximum decentralization will be achieved by integration on board every vessel of as many multifaceted capabilities in strategic nuclear force provisions, conventional artillery, anti-ship and shore battery missiles, torpedoes, depth charges, extensive electronic surveillance capabilities, mining capabilities, air craft facilities, landing shore party facilities, storage and troop transport potentials, integrated command centers. Every type of vessel will be integrated in such a manner as much as possible within the capabilities of its primary specialized function. These will be primary specialized low mix vessels with secondary high mix capabilities. The object is to create, by making each vessel independent in many functions and inter-linking comprehensively all vessels a well coordinated sea control net.

To augment this decentralization of sea force capabilities is a strategy of increased dispersion and an increased number of functionally well integrated smaller vessels to increase survivability of the whole net and to reduce vulnerability to modern anti-ship guided missiles and tactical nuclear weapon capability. This is a tend toward increased numbers of smaller vessels and in increased dispersion of power augmenting the larger vessels in order to provide for increased survivability and reduced vulnerability.

Complementing this developmental trend toward smaller, more integrated multipurpose vessels is another trend toward increased use of multipurpose undersea vessels, submarines, to further decrease inherent vulnerability while simultaneously improving mobility and offensive strike capabilities. This strategy I have named the reflective pyramidal iceberg, in which for every large vessel there are two smaller vessels all the way down to the level of the miniature submarine and the patrol hydrofoil, and for every surface vessel there are two sub-surface vessels of similar, complementary function. For every easily visible and more vulnerable large vessel evident to enemy reconnaissance there exists a multiplicative augmentation of strength dispersed among smaller, less vulnerable and less visible vessels and sub-surface vessels, and a corresponding divisive decrease in the vulnerability of the sea force. The more easily detectable surface sea force will represent only the tip of an iceberg of unseen gargantuan capabilities, most of which is below the surface in a even larger area of operation and power control. Each of the vessels will be automated as much as possible to reduce to the minimum the requirements in the number of human operators.

There sailors will be trained as integratively and comprehensively as possible to service a wider variety of automatic functions on board the vessel. In this manner the human valuation will be maximized while the personnel requirements can be minimized. A fraction of the human resource pool may be released from work aboard ship who can in turn provide a reactionary reserve pool and cyclical replacement crew for further reduction of the human requirements of the sea service and improvements in the quality of the individual's performance.

The largest vessel manned by the sea force will be the floating island corps base itself. These manmade islands will be large enough to provide adequate facilities for the largest strategic air craft, to house an adequate minimal number of ICBM missiles and ABM missiles, to provide adequate conventional defensive weaponry, to provide enough supplies, support activities and housing requirements for a corps group and its equipment. It will also be capable of maintaining space rocket launch facilities, a centralized comprehensive command center, adequate port facilities for all corps sea vessels. These large islands will not simply float or be permanently anchored to the ocean floor, but will be nuclear powered, mobile and directional to decrease vulnerability, increase offensive mobility, and improve flotational performance. It is within the potential of modern engineering technology to build such integrated, safe and durable islands which are capable of withstanding the roughest weather conditions of the high seas. Each corps group will be based on a floating island. A force services group will be based on four of these floating islands. Each island besides containing a minimal stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons and defense arsenals will also house at least 8 ICBM's and 8 ABM's.

Issuing from each floating island will be a nuclear attack aircraft carrier basing intermediate range nuclear strike aircraft, high mix fighter bomber aircraft, service aircraft and defensive interception aircraft. These vessels will resemble the modern nuclear carriers of the US Navy. Completing this surface vessel will be 2 nuclear attack submarines of the most modern class.

Augmenting the nuclear aircraft carrier will be two intermediate high mix aircraft helicopter carriers and transport LSD's. One will contain advanced equipment of the corps special logistical service supplies and attached tactical aircraft, including fighters, helicopters, VSTOL's. Each of the vessels will contain two nuclear ICBM silos. Augmenting these two surface vessels will be four intermediate class submarines containing sea lift supply capacity, an arsenal of nuclear cruise missiles, control center electronic surveillance capabilities, tactical nuclear mining and torpedo capabilities.

Augmenting these helicopter carriers will be four transport vessels, each capable of carrying the vehicles and supplies for the heavy weapons CLT, for the 25 minimum sized mosquito helicopters, for a heavy tactical anti-submarine and transport helicopter and for two VSTOL fighter attack tactical aircraft. Conventional barrage guns, anti-ship guided missiles and surface barrage missiles, depth charges and anti-aircraft defense systems will be the armaments of this vessel. Augmenting these surface vessels will be eight submarines capable of transporting a medium weapons CLT, plus provisions, with mining and torpedoing capabilities and anti-ship guided missiles capabilities, equipped especially for the anti-submarine role.

Augmenting these surface vessels will be eight destroyer class surface vessels each containing attack helicopters landing facilities, transport capacity for two hydrofoil patrol craft., transport capabilities for a squadron of light weapons team, conventional shore battery artillery, anti-ship missiles and conventional depth charge capabilities. These will be further augmented by 16 small torpedo attack submarines with mining capabilities, with minimum transport capacities and surveillance equipment. Issuing out from these will be two minimum size patrol torpedo attack miniature submarines and reconnaissance teams.

The hydrofoil patrol craft will be small, fast torpedo boat with two harpoon class anti-ship missiles, a single conventional main gun in a rotating turret, anti-aircraft missiles and a hedgehog anti-submarine capabilities. The miniature attack submarines will have only limited torpedo and mining capabilities and will be capable of transporting ashore a reconnaissance attack squad.

The air forces of the conventional military model are perhaps the most modernized and best integrated, receiving by far the lion's share of economic support by which development has been induced. Yet this direction of development has also and exactly because of the greater economic subsidization impetus, followed trends which may prove in future warfare to be misdirected waste of much material and human potential. The most modern fighter aircraft are overly specialized, high mix, high cost aircraft which are very complex, suffering frequent mechanical and engineering breakdown, and are overly expensive. Like the modern main battle tank, they may prove to be not as cost effective in net terms when stacked up against anti-aircraft guided missiles and other lower mix aircraft. There has been no attention or effort to pursue other possible alternative directions of development. It is a process of specialized integration without comprehensive orientation. It is a dead end for successful evolution. The air force of the model of the universal elite is composed differently.

The aim of this air force is to establish the capability and to maintain the reality total air supremacy in every area of the world in competition with any enemy air force. This air supremacy is a vital prerequisite to the success of all the other forces and to the overall success of the universal elite. Without complete aerial superiority, to capability to wage decisive warfare is negated. Secondarily its mission is to provide a minimum nuclear deterrence capability as part of the quadrad of nuclear delivery systems, to provide tactical defense and close air support to the other front echelon forces, to provide strategic and tactical airlift capability of 1/4 total manpower and equipment requirements of the force service group and to provide aloft an extension of the command and intelligence capabilities. It represents a single comprehensively integrated organization assuming all roles of any conventional air force, combining the duplicative and expensive functions of a Marine Corps air wing, of a Navy air wing, of an Army air wing and of an air force, plus all the duplicated responsibilities and maintenance requirements and facilities associated with every aspect of air power.

The means of achieving its primary and secondary mission is by introducing a wide variety of cheaper special purpose low mix aircraft which maintain competitive parity in their special roles and comprehensive superiority as a team, achieving common strength and superiority that arises out of cooperative and well coordinated team work. There are four general categories into which 18 different low mix special function aircraft will fit. These are the tactical field, the strategic field, the strategic airlift field and tactical airlift field.

The tactical airlift field is the largest and most diverse in types of aircraft of the for categories. These vehicles are smaller and less expensive than in the other groups. The aircraft is largest quantity is the unmanned RPv air parity and tactical reconnaissance fighter. It is hoped that this aircraft will in its special field become the most superior tactically and the most versatile and most economical to build, maintain and operate. The key to its success is in being piloted by remote control. This will eliminate the human element in the design of these aircraft. It is possible to eliminate all human support systems to decrease weight and increase speed and range. These craft are provided aerial reconnaissance instruments, anti-aircraft guided missile capability and conventional anti-aircraft capability. It is the mission of the robot aircraft to provide continual tactical reconnaissance by the pilot controllers themselves and to establish air fighter parity with an opponent air force, attempting to shoot down any and all aircraft. It is not their mission to achieve air superiority. It is their mission only to establish air parity in any and every given locality to enable other aircraft to perform unhindered their own specialized mission. There will be sixteen 8 plane squadrons per force service group.

VSTOL capabilities is requisite, enabling small tactical aircraft small field landing and take off capability, shortening the logistical lines and turn around time and increasing the amount of tactical air support deliverable. Two jet powered VSTOL's, the defensive VSTOL fighter, resembling the interceptor and close ground support dive bomber, the AV8B, the Harrier, to establish local air superiority in defense of air facilities and naval facilities, and in defense of ground operations. The other VSTOL is a combination jet and propeller twin fuselage aircraft which is used strictly as a tactical bomber and in close ground support, similar to the A10 and Bronco. It should have dive bombing capabilities and anti-tank and anti-vehicular capacity, such as a 40mm. 4 barreled Gatling gun. There will be 8 plane squadrons of each type, with a squadron in support of a CLT, a squadron in support of the sea vessels, a squadron on board the main aircraft carrier and a squadron on board the floating base. This will make for 64 planes of each type per force services group.

Another area is an increased dependence on helicopters in tactical air support. This support is in two types of assault copters, a one man mosquito copter and a two man hornet tactical copter. The mosquito is a mini police type of helo with a single pilot gunner, a capability for a 500 lb. Bomb payload, a single barrel 40mm. automatic gun for anti-vehicular capability, two sub-caliber mini guns, ground rockets, flame throwing or gas dispersing apparatus, and adjustable side rails to mount standard anti-tank or anti-aircraft guided missiles or to mount man sized stretchers for two medivac capacity or for logistical supplies. Three eight mosquito squadrons, 24 air crafts, in support of each CLT, making for a total of 384 helicopters in the force service group. There will be 64 Hornet type helicopters with greater armament and payload capacity, equipped especially for the anti-tank role, per force service group, half in support of the ground force, the other half in support of the sea vessels. These copters are to provide continuous, en mass close ground support and tactical reconnaissance as an interim decentralized support.

On board the main aircraft carrier of each corps group will be two eight plane squadrons of high mix F15 type fighter bombers and two eight plane intermediate range interdiction bombers capable of handling a semi strategic mission, similar to the F111. The fighter bomber will escort the interdiction bombers on raids into the enemy heartland, establishing temporarily local air superiority over the region being bombed. There will be 64 of each type of aircraft per force service group.

The strategic bomber field will consist of five plane squadrons of special bomber forces per island. One squadron of bombers similar to the B52 type bomber capable of carrying an alternative payload of conventional bombs. One squadron of B1 class bombers with superior performance capabilities designed for pure strategic missions. One squadron of cruise missile carriers capable of transporting numerous guided bomber missiles to a strategic position and launching them. One squadron of RPV bombers which carry blossoming pods of RPV's with nuclear warheads remotely controlled by operators within the main craft and one squadron of electronic warfare flying command stations and intelligence gathering aircraft. This makes for 20 planes each per force service group. Also there will be a squadrons of 10 strategic reconnaissance aircraft per force service group. The strategy of this force will be to make several indirect deep penetrations to avoid extensive anti-aircraft defenses, to overwhelm local defenses in multiple waves of penetration. The cruise missile carrier and RPV forces will make the initial penetrations, finding the route of least defense. The B1 and B52 type bombers will follow successively in the third and fourth wave attacks to exploit the successful routes of penetration by the first waves.

The strategic airlift force will consist of two separate squadrons per floating island. One will be a squadron of C141 type of transport and the other will be C5 galaxy type of strategic airlift capacity. This will make for a total of 40 per force service group. Tactical airlift capability will consist of helicopters of two types, there will be a large crane type of transport copter capable of lifting 30 tons. There will be four 8 copter squadrons per floating island. Three squadrons will be located on the helicopter carrier in service with the corps landing teams. These large aircraft will be capable of attacking and transporting entire heavy weapons teams, attaching and detaching modular trailers, for special services functions including field hospitals, field mess, command stations, surface to surface missile batteries, etc. One squadron will be in support of the surface vessels for material re-supply and attaching special anti-submarine warfare capabilities. This makes for a total of 120 of such aircraft per force service group. The other type of helicopter will be similar to the Huey gun ship and the CH46. It will strictly for the transport of personnel, for medivac, reinforcement, evacuation, reconnaissance, penetration, for parachute drops. There will be two squadrons per Corps group.

The mission of the land force is to establish and decisively control over any region of land on earth. This element of human control is essential to the final realization of all force strategy. The primary means will be by vertical and amphibious envelopment which surrounds and immobilize the opponent's force capabilities. The land force is neither a light, infantry heavy rapid deployable organization nor a heavy tank oriented type of unity with great shock power and land mobility but very limited in airlift capacity and sea lift logistical support capacities. It is an integrated combination of these two types of conventional army divisions, a medium unit, with equipment intensive mechanization but light enough at the same time to be rapidly airlifted or sea lifted and to be extremely land mobile.

The key to the medium concept is a shift in the trend of the development of the expensive, high mix main battle tanks which are too heavy to be easily transportable, towards emphasis on the development of lighter, more easily mobile and less expensive vehicles which are easily airlifted and are amphibious. At the same time the infantry elements maintain the flexibility of airborne and parachute, reconnaissance and helicopter vertical envelopment. For every expensive main battle tank producible there will be five of these lighter vehicles with a greater net firepower and mobility. These vehicles will be less vulnerable on the modern battlefield, more lethal, and through comprehensive integration will require less manpower.

This shift in the trend of development of the main battle tank will be reflected in the combined arms team concept. There are five distinct force teams: the light weapons team, the medium weapons team, the heavy weapons team, the squad team and the special forces team. All these teams will operate jointly in an interdependency of specialized functions as members of the corps landing team.

The corporate landing team concept is the level at which front and rear echelons, at which tactical and logistical functions, at which all five force teams tie together and conjoin in their activities to accomplish the mission of the land forces. Companies from each of the five weapons teams come together at the corporate landing team level to cooperate in mutual activities. A corporate landing team is battalion in size, regimental in firepower assets. There will be four corporate landing teams with one material reserve and two personnel reserve teams allotted to each corps group and they are deployed in a flexible and rotational manner on board the floating bases and on board sea vessels. The description of each of these five types of companies will be at the company level of organization. Within each of these companies a high degree of technical integration and comprehensive similarities and coordination is attained. The ultimate cumulative effect of this small scale integration process is the ephemeralization, the doing more with less, giving to the land force indisputable capability for tactical success.

The light weapons team consists of a company of 100 one man, light weight, amphibious, 7 ton multipurpose vehicles which are a combination of forklift, hydraulic shovel for digging and engineering purposes, hoist for lifting, with a one man fighting compartment with a completely transferable turret mounting a 6.2mm mini gun and a 40mm. automatic cannon, 16 one thousand meter range guided anti-tank or anti-aircraft missiles, and a flame throwing apparatus. It is a light weapon reconnaissance vehicle designed to replace the role of jeep, forklift, tractor and bulldozer. It consists of a standard hydro-pneumatic suspension system, the same as all other types of vehicles in this model, with all standardized apparatus and machining. It is powered by a single steam turbine engine. It has an aluminum hull with a steel armor protective turret. It is capable of speeds of 60m.p.h. and 45m.p.h. cross country. It is also capable of hauling special purpose trailer units, water bulls, fuel tanks, medical units, electrical generators and a special demolition trailer which is fired by remote control. These vehicles will work in two pair sections, in squadrons of 3 sections or six vehicles per squadron. There will be sixteen squadrons per team doled out for a wide variety of support functions.

The medium weapons team consists of an integration of two companies. One is a company of 14 ton assault guns similar in appearance to the Swedish S tank. These vehicles are operated by two men, a gunner-loader and a tank commander-driver. The vehicle is powered by two steam powered turbine engines each the same as the light vehicle and is suspended on a track of standardized system. It has an aluminum hull with a semi-oscillating steel casement mounting a 135mm. main gun with semi-automatic loading with 30 rounds, plus 15 extra rounds, capable of 45 degrees frontal traverse and high angle artillery elevation, with a coaxial of 6.2mm. mini gun and a coaxial automatic 40mm. cannon which is mounted on top of the tube. The gunner-loader sits down inside the semi-oscillating turret with the tank commander-driver sitting behind in the hull with the driving controls. It is capable of firing and carrying up to eight medium range guided missiles, carrying six anti-tank missiles and 2 anti-aircraft missiles which can be fired from the same launch tube and controls. It has a compartment capable of carrying two persons and an outside back mounting for a dirt bike. It is capable of speeds of 60m.p.h. and 45m.p.h. cross country. It is designed to haul either a munitions trailer or a rocket artillery bombardment pod. These vehicles travel in a squadron of twelve vehicles in two vehicle pair sections, each pair carrying a single munitions trailer and a rocket pod. There are four squadrons per company.

This vehicle company is supported by an infantry assault company consisting of 50 two man fire teams, divided up into 4 twenty four man squads. Each individual besides being equipped with a dirt bike motorcycle hauling a 75mm. mortar carriage and a munitions trailer and two one thousand meter anti-tank guided missiles. These motorcycle groups are highly mobile cross country. Their mission is to serve in support of the medium vehicles and to initiate special purpose assault type missions. Besides the dirt bikes each squad is also equipped with special purpose two man vehicles, either snow mobiles, midget submarines, water skis or two man glider aircraft. The medium weapons team is the front line offensive unit designed to provide forward artillery support, anti-tank missile defense, automatic weapons defense, rocket bombardment capabilities, etc. These two vehicle squadrons will alternate in a three up-one reserve fashion.

The heavy weapons team consists of a combination of one vehicle companies of twenty four vehicles and an infantry company. The standard vehicle is a 30 ton amphibious fighting vehicle which is a combination Sheridan M113, main battle tank, BMP, tracked missile launching system, Amtrac and recovery vehicle. These vehicles are amphibious with a four man crew: driver, gunner, loader and tank commander. The rear compartment is a troop transport compartment carrying up to ten infantrymen plus all their vehicle support weapons. These vehicles are the mainstay of the land forces, being an alternative course of development than the current trend of the heavy main battle tank. There is an optimum trade off in the design of any tank between mobility, crew protection, armor weight and firepower and armament. The current trend has been toward increased armor protection with greater weight. Current main battle tanks are too heavy, burdened with too much dead weight which serves essentially no net protective function and diminishes the capabilities of the vehicle in almost every respect. It is a sacrifice of mobility which is essential to tank survival. It makes the whole tank difficult to maintain and overly expensive to produce. The concept of the heavier the more protective is mistaken. Crew survivability is the reason for armor protection. It is possible to trade off in the weight to protection ration increased distance between impact of a projectile and the crew for decreased armored mass. It is possible to incorporate a new armor protection system which will reduce the overall weight of the vehicle while enhancing the survivability of the tank and crew. Instead of a single thick layer of armor there will be a series of lighter density, more distantly spaced armor shields of different densities supporting a smaller internal super dense crew protective core. The range of weapons which can penetrate such an inverted buffer type of armor system to the core can be substantially reduced, making the vehicle practically impervious to such shaped charge HEAT warheads of the smaller anti-tank weapons. This general formula for armor protection can be further enhanced in a wide variety of ways.

The first way is to decentralize, multiply and disperse all crucial components and functions of the vehicle to enable the vehicle to function and withstand a large series of hits. This is the reason for two engines, an all wheel drive suspension system instead of a single sprocket, which once a track is blown off or broken the vehicle will still be mobile, for separated placed diesel fuel cells, batteries, hydraulics, for three separate crew compartments each completely sealed but yet capable of interdependent support. Finally the inside of the crew compartment consists of rubberized cushioned chain mail type shielding to reduce round splatter and spalling and each crew member is in his own light weight self protective, completely environmentally sealed, armored suit no too dissimilar to those suits of armor of medieval knights. Sandwiched between the inner and outer walls of the inner crew compartments will be compressed freon gas cells which will reduce the heat effects of round penetration and counteract the explosive effect.

The vehicles are completely sealed and are amphibious. They are capable of road speeds of 60m.p.h. and cross country speeds of 45m.p.h. They have standardized suspension systems, a mine detector scrapper blade on the front. They have a 135mm. dual purpose main gun, capable of firing nuclear projectiles, equipped with a 90 round capacity, 12 medium range anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles and four launch tubes. It has a greater cruising range and a ten foot long silhouette. By increasing crew comfort and crew support systems the crew space may be substantially reduced than normal. It consists of an aluminum protective hull with twin steam engines and a twelve pneumatic wheel suspension system. The hull weighs ten tons. The separate driving compartment, fighting compartment and troop compartment each fit into this hull and are bolted down with systems connected. Each compartment weighs between 5 and 10 tons. To improve swimming capabilities each side of the hull has screw propeller on the end of the drive shaft. Fuel cells are mounted on the hull deck between interconnected drive trains. Water steam coolers and radiators are located along the walls of the hull. Also to improve swimming capabilities are air expandable bellows type floating apparatus, in six independent sections along each side contained folded up with the vehicle's protective hull skirting. the function of these floats raise the vehicle higher above the water level to improve mobility as well as bouncy. The dimensions of the vehicle are approximately 13 feet width by 30 feet length by 10 feet height. The steam engines are a closed system in which electrical alternators are supplemental heat sources besides diesel, petrol, etc. The fuel capacity is 350 gallons of fuel plus 350 gallons of recyclable water, which is heated in the boilers, passed through the turbines and cooled in the cooling radiators and storage tanks. The suspension consists of three foot diameter twin steel belted pneumatic tires with separate inner tube compartments and an internally incorporated puncture sealant, driven by a drive train, and wrapped around by a rubber padded single block intrical pin track. These tracks are two feet wide and are designed to improve swimming capabilities. The troop compartment is capable of carrying ten men who are seated outboard each with individual firing port for his assault weapon and periscopic vision blocks for peripheral 180 degree vision. Besides these men it also carries ten 50 pound anti-vehicular mines, light weight HEAT rocket anti-vehicle mines, anti-personnel mines, ten red eye type anti-aircraft missiles, ten suitcase sagger type anti-tank missiles plus other support materials for the infantry. Also carried in this rear compartment is a 120mm. multipurpose mortar anti-tank gun.

These vehicles will be grouped into four tank sections. Three tanks will be equipped with 135mm. main guns and integrated missile systems. These three tank section will be supported by engineer tanks which are similar in design but instead of an anti-mine scrapper on the front it will have a bulldozer blade and instead of the standard 135mm. main gun turret it will be equipped with a turret armed with a four barreled 40mm. gatling gun for anti-aircraft defense, and a flame throwing device. Instead of a missile tube hydraulically operated at the back of the turret there will be an extensible crane hoist device used for lifting heavy loads and for carrying a rolled up aluminum matting designed to be used for helo and VSTOL landing pads, or to be left rolled up to be used as fleiscenes to fill in anti-tank ditches. The troop compartment will be converted into a combined medical evacuation facility for six stretchers and a central command communications station. There will be eight vehicle squadrons. Each vehicle will haul a munitions trailer with complete re-supply of its combat munitions, plus special mess facilities, fuel, water, extra emergency reserve supplies of special materials, tools, small arms ammunition, medical kits, etc. The engineering vehicle will carry instead of an ammunitions trailer a combined medical facility trailer and radar command station designed as an air warning system, in conjunction with anti-air defense. The team is used as either an assault tank mode, with mounted infantry elements, or in a defensive artillery mode.

The squad team us a single integrated 15 men infantry unit designed to function as a single platoon. A company of these will consist of twelve squad teams, divided into six two squad sections each mounted on board a single section as part of the heavy weapons team. The single infantry squad consists of three five man fire teams. Two fire teams are assault infantry while the third is a special squad weapons support team, designed to serve as a base of fire for the assault teams. Each member of the squad team will have a 1000meter range anti-tank guided missile, a protective armored suit which is designed to be fire resistant, weather proof, blast and shock proof, chemical and biological warfare protective, and impervious to small arms fire and resistant to shrapnel. They are completely closed survival support systems which are also lightweight and flexible. They are to improve the individual soldiers chances for survival on the modern battlefield while at the same time simplifying the prerequisite support functions down to a single unit. each suit is electronically computer integrated and is capable of short range radio communication, capable of passive night vision, and with audio sensors and high noise protection. Every member of the fire team is equipped with radio capability, increasing coordination, dispersion and control of missions. The members are armed with 6.2mm assault rifle with a passive night scope, with an M203 type grenade launcher also capable of firing anti-tank rockets and flame warheads, interchangeable from either the magazine fed semi automatic mode to the belt fed automatic mode. The weapon is designed as a trade off replacing the 5.56mm weapon and the full powered 7.62mm air cooled machine gun, with a single, high powered, increased range yet small type ammunition. Ammunition will come in plastic links of belts of 125 rounds. There will be four belts per ammo cans per crate. Besides these main assault weapons the members are also equipped with a variety of hand grenades, anti-personnel mines, and a 22 magnum machine pistol, designed to be used as a secondary reserve weapon system to replace all manner of small weapons, pistols, submachine guns, etc. The assault fire teams will consist of one fire team leader with improved radio and medical equipment, two automatic rifle men with their weapons in the belt fed mode and two semiautomatic rifle men with their weapons in the magazine mode. All weapons will be equipped with silencing device. The support fire teams will consist of a squad fire team leader with improved medical and communication capabilities, armed instead of a rifle with a special 22mag. mini gun capable of firing at adjustable rates up to 10,000 rounds per minute. There will be two automatic rifle men with their weapons in the belt fed mode and two special squad weapons men. One will carry a five gallon flame throwing device mounted on an over-under weapon with an 8 gauge pump action, 4 inch magnum magazine fed shot gun. The other will carry a 70mm. mortar, designed to replace the 60 and 80 mm. mortars, the light recoilless rifles, the RPG, and the Bazooka. It will fire a fine stabilized, rocket propelled, percussion assisted warhead, HEAT or dual purpose incendiary anti-personnel warheads and an illumination round. It will be breach fed, mounted on a tripod or carried in a bipodal assault mode. This man will also carry a tubular pump action 40mm. grenade launcher capable of firing four rounds successively.

The two squads sections will operate together with two tube capabilities. Two rounds for the 70mm multipurpose mortar and a single flame bottle will be carried by each member of the squad, plus two extra belts of ammunition for the automatic weapons men. Each squad member will also have a war dog, a German shepherd, which will be trained for mine detection, bobby trap detection, for tracking and scouting, for body detection, as a guard dog, as a porter for carrying its own water, food and medical kit, two belts of ammunition, eight 40mm grenades and two 70mm rods. They will carry also a 5 lb. Plastic explosive satchel and a magnetic anti-mine metal detector. Besides these standard items each of these infantrymen will also be equipped with bicycles which can be broken down and carried in the field packs, skis and snow shoes for cold weather operations, modern mountain climbing equipment and modern parachute apparatus and scuba diving gear. These forces will be well equipped and well trained to operate in a wide variety of special areas, climates and terrain. They will be man for man and unit for unit the most powerful infantry force on the earth.

The final special forces team are CLT level organized special weapons companies designed for reconnaissance patrols, guerrilla and counter insurgency type operations, espionage and anti-terrorist operations, etc. These special force teams will also consist of an auxiliary 24 vehicle force service level special assault team, of 50 vehicles of the medium weapons team and 100 vehicles of the light weapons team designed for especially for behind the lines, airlift parachute drop and glider borne operations. Special forces companies will also consist of horse mounted cavalry teams, mule teams for mountain operations, camel teams for desert operations, dog sled teams for Arctic operations. The operational range will be as diverse as possible for this special force team.

Suffice it to say that the whole force service group is of a total personnel strength of approximately 50,000 including reserve forces. There are about 15,000 personnel per front line force: land, air and sea. There are about 5,000 support and command personnel. In a formulation of a revised model of a comprehensively integrated military force there are a wide range of influential factors and interrelated considerations. Suffice it to say that by increasing mobility, decreasing vulnerability, through increased comprehensive and specialized integration, through modernized social and organizational reforms, through small changes and improvements in every aspect of the conventional military model, an overall general cumulative improvement is achievable. The universal elite is the modern model of a successful application of military technology and innovation. It can be cheaply implemented and its efficacy will be validated by its success.

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