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This 3 page paper argues that Secretary of Defense Gates was correct to cancel the vehicle portion of the future combat system program. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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(FCS) plans. This focuses narrowly on the background of the FCS and the decision to cancel the vehicular part of it. The paper argues that canceling the vehicular production part
of FCS was the correct decision. Discussion Feickert and Lucas of the Congressional Research Service provided a report to Congress in November, 2009, which discusses the FCS and changes to
it. The entire idea of revamping the Army was the brainchild of General Eric Shinseki, then Army Chief of Staff; he hoped to remake the Army into a "lighter, more
modular, and-most importantly-deployable" force (Feickert & Lucas, 2009, p. 2). The idea was to create a system that could put a brigade in the field in four days, a division
in five, and five divisions in 30 days (Feickert & Lucas, 2009). Because such a transformation is extremely complex, it was expected to take place over three decades, with the
project completed by 2032 (Feickert & Lucas, 2009). Shinseki wanted the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to handle it because they have a solid reputation for managing such projects,
but also because he expected opposition from high-ranking Army officers who, he felt, would want to stick with heavier vehicles like the M-2 Bradley and the M-1 Abrams tank (Feickert
& Lucas, 2009). They would also be developing entirely new software consistent with these upgrades (Feickert & Lucas, 2009). In this brief summary we can see three points that would
have made Gates think twice: the opposition of Army officers who remained wedded to more traditional vehicles; the need to develop entirely new software; and (below), the fact that warfare
has changed to the point where the M-1 and M-2 are not as effective as they once were. The fact that Shinseki expected opposition from within the Army itself speaks
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