Comments on: Overland to Afghanistan http://www.behindbluelines.com/2009/01/15/overland-to-afghanistan/?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Samizdat from the Blue Northeast Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:02:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cannoneerno4 http://www.behindbluelines.com/2009/01/15/overland-to-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-37 cannoneerno4 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:11:41 +0000 http://www.behindbluelines.com/?p=1701#comment-37 <a href="http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20090114_afghanistan_logistical_alternative" rel="nofollow">Afghanistan: The Logistical Alternative</a> Afghanistan: The Logistical Alternative

]]> By: cannoneerno4 http://www.behindbluelines.com/2009/01/15/overland-to-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-35 cannoneerno4 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:58:55 +0000 http://www.behindbluelines.com/?p=1701#comment-35 The plan won't require the establishment of any <i>new</i> base in Kazakhstan. We'll just use existing Host Nation bases, facilities, and installations. Which they will charge us a pretty penny for, with a discount for the opportunity to poke the Bear in the eye. Almaty Airport will make a fair substitute for Manas. They'll give us some real estate around the runway, some ramp space, a hangar if we're lucky, and room to park trailers and put up prefab buildings. You'd be amazed at what kind of billeting and office spaces can be made out of shipping containers. This Northern Transit Network will be a huge Intermodal shipping scheme, most of it using the existing civilian transportation infrastructure, injecting much needed cash into Host Nation economies. There will be US military and civilian contractors at the intermodal transshipment points, and a big warehouse complex somewhere north of Afghanistan. And none of it goes through Russia. The plan won’t require the establishment of any new base in Kazakhstan. We’ll just use existing Host Nation bases, facilities, and installations.
Which they will charge us a pretty penny for, with a discount for the opportunity to poke the Bear in the eye. Almaty Airport will make a fair substitute for Manas. They’ll give us some real estate around the runway, some ramp space, a hangar if we’re lucky, and room to park trailers and put up prefab buildings. You’d be amazed at what kind of billeting and office spaces can be made out of shipping containers.

This Northern Transit Network will be a huge Intermodal shipping scheme, most of it using the existing civilian transportation infrastructure, injecting much needed cash into Host Nation economies. There will be US military and civilian contractors at the intermodal transshipment points, and a big warehouse complex somewhere north of Afghanistan. And none of it goes through Russia.

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