Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege) writes:

> On 02 Dec 2003 17:50:36 -0500, Steinn Sigurdsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >Current BA deployments outside UK:

> >Afghanistan - light composite brigade
> >Iraq: 3rd Division - reinforced armoured division
> >Balkans: reinforced brigade
> >Kosovo: brigade
> >Bosnia: - ligh composite brigade
> > - total balkans forces are almost a divisions worth

> All of which involve US logistic support.

As a matter of convenience rather than necessity.
I note that the Gulf Deployment includes a RN fleet tanker,
the RAF units have organic tanker support, and the 3rd division
deployed with 8 attached logistic regiments and 3 engineering regiments.

Further, if a "US" air supply consists of US planes attached to NATO
shipping NATO stores from UK and German storage staging out
of UK airfields and delivering to both US and UK units (and the
other NATO and SEATO units from 9 different nations in the corps) then is it
really "US" logistic support?

In the recent Iraq war the US for example relied on
German logistic support to get at least one division
to the front - staging out of German airports using
German transport and German armed forces for transport
security - is it then a "US logistic support only" because
the planes were USAF?