FOREWORD
"Today's leaders and planners must understand Reception, Staging, Onward moving, and Integration (RSO& as a part of deployment and employment. Contingency offensives will differ substantially. They will tend toward bare sufficiency because the Army will be smaller and have fewer "troops available." The need for speed and size constraints of strategic deployments will also affect the nature of force-projection offensives. RSO& will continue directly into the offensive in many cases. Commanders of attacking forces will, therefore, have to make hard decisions of timing and will be forced to weigh greater risks than those faced by the commanders of larger forward-deployed forces. Among those are the risks of attacking too soon before the full potential of the deploying force is developed and of waiting too long, thus allowing the original aggressor to solidify his defense. . .the "bold, decisive, risktakers: idealized by Army doctrine will have to get even bolder (wiser, too, in all likelihood) to effectively build and track combat power."
LTG
L. D. Holder
Commander,
Combined Arms Center and
Fort
Leavenworth
Chapter
1: Introduction and Purpose
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