An Analysis of Construction of Equipment Long-distance Delivery Capability of US Army

Abstract

As an important symbol of a country’s comprehensive national strength and war power, the long-distance delivery capability of the quipment is a prerequisite for the formation of the military deployment which directly affects the process of war and even win or lose of the war. The long-distance delivery force of US military equipment is composed of three parts, namely, the air delivery force, the maritime delivery force and the maritime pre-positioned force. The US army attaches great importance to the construction of the equipment long-distance delivery capacity. And its effective measures are to incorporate the civilian capacity into the equipment long-distance delivery force system by legislation, to effectively safeguard the economic benefits of the requisitioned civilian long-distance delivery forces, to take into account the need of the long-distance delivery of the equipment in the development and transformation of the civilian transportation vehicles, to provide reliable support for the civilian transport forces of participating in the long-distance delivery of the equipment and to provide reliable support for the civilian transport forces of participating in the long-distance delivery of the equipment. Its success experience is to strengthen integrated capacity construction of the air, the sea and the land for the long-distance delivery of the equipment, to unified dispatch and command the long-distance transportation forces of the army, the government and the civilian, to unify the plan of the combat and training to the equipment long-distance delivery capacity and to insure the respective interests of the army and the civilian.