PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACRONYMS -- Chapter One INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- ARMY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES -- Emerging Doctrine -- The Stryker Brigades -- The Objective Force -- PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION -- Chapter Two DEPLOYING THE SBCTs -- AIRLIFTING THE SBCT -- Available Airlift Fleet -- Airfield Infrastructure -- Deployment of the SBCT from Projected Bases -- SEALIFTING THE SBCT -- Sealift Assets Considered -- Calculating Sealift Deployment Time -- Outside Harbor Unload Operations -- Shallow-Draft Sealift -- Road March -- DEPLOYMENT TIMES -- Representative Scenarios -- Airlift Deployment Analysis -- Sealift Deployment Analysis -- Airlift Versus Sealift -- Chapter Three DECISIONS TO INITIATE OPERATIONS -- MISSIONS -- Stopping Aggressors -- Conducting Contingency Operations -- Conducting Enforcement Operations -- Conducting Counterterrorism Operations -- TIMELINE -- WARNING -- Concern -- Urgent Danger -- Precipitating Events -- Timelines for Selected Operations -- THE CRISIS DECISIONMAKING PROCESS -- Exploring Alternatives -- Threats to Important U.S. Interests -- Risks of U.S. Casualties -- HISTORICAL RESPONSE TIMES -- Chapter Four REGIONS OF INTEREST -- DISCERNING PATTERNS OF INTEREST -- U.S. Operations Since 1945 -- Areas of Current Crises and Conflicts -- The War on Terrorism -- Terrorism: Looking to the Future -- REGIONS OF INTEREST -- Central America and the Caribbean -- Europe -- Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa -- Middle East and Southwest Asia -- East Asia and the Pacific Rim -- SUMMARY -- Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS -- KEY FINDINGS -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE USAF -- Appendix A DEPTH OF U.S. OPERATIONS -- Appendix B COMPONENTS OF DEPLOYMENT TIMES FOR ALL SCENARIOS FROM CHAPTER TWO -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.