[Louied]

The document is only talking about US Army divisions. Can't recall the name of the book now but I have also read that the JCS (in 1987) believed that in order to adequately cover all contigencies they needed a minimum of 23 active Army divisions & 4 active Marine divisions.

If anyone is having trouble with the TRADOC PDF please let me know & I'll upload it from my computer. I'll give everyone a quick look though:

1) The AOE study concentrated on fielding 5 Corps. Each Heavy Corps (III, V, & VII) would field 2 Mech & 2 Ard. Div.'s.plus 1 ARNG Infantry Div. These would consist of (after reformation) 2 Ard., 2 mech, & 6 Inf. (Air Assault TO & E) which was at first considered the configuration with the greatest Tactical flexibility. However they settled on a 3 Ard. 3 Mech 3 Air Assault & 1 TLAT formation (shades of the '90's Medium Div).

2) Each Corp would field 1 Light Sep Bde for rear area security (33, 39, 73, 41, & 45. My guesses) and 2 Heavy Sep Bde.'s ( 30, 31, 116, 163, & 194 Ard. 30, 32, 157, 197, 218 Mech., again my guesses) This was thrown in disarray when the 116 went to the 4ID in 1989 as it's RO.
As for the remaining Sep Bde's, there would be 6 RO (27 & 205 Light, 48, 81, 155, & 256 Heavy) along with 7 what was termed as "Theatre Defence" Bde's (Berlin, 29 Light= Hawaii, 92 Light= Puerto Rico, 187 Light=Iceland, 193 Light= Panama, 53 Light= Carribean Basin, & 207 Scout= Alaska. Again my guesses)

3) The 2 contigency Corps were a little more vague. XVIII was definetly going to CENTCOM with the 82, 101, an ARNG Div., the 3 Sep Bde.'s and if possible the 9th (which also had a mission in Denmark) , the 24th (which also had a NATO mission in a general war but would go to CENTCOM in a regional one !!!) Along with a Light Div. (Supposedly to hold the passes in the Zagros Mountains againt Soviet armour !!!!). To me it seemed I Corp would swing between Korea or NATO . (My guess, that depended on if IX Corp was reformed for Korea.) Additionally there is a mention of a Div. To Turkey, I believe this was the 10th but by the late 80's it was going to Norway, can anyone clarify this ?

4) 2 ID in ROK had 2 each Ard., Mech, & Air Assault. I know KATUSA troops were integrated into all these units in 2 ID. However there is a mention of KATUSA "Bn.'s" reinforcing. Was this some kind of planned RO to the 2nd ?

Louie