Introduction
and key findings ............................................................................................
2
Planning
and readiness for expeditionary operations .......................................................
2
Testing the
UK’s expeditionary capability: lessons learned? ......................................
6
The UK’s
expeditionary capability by 2002 ...............................................................
11
Equipment
preparations for the invasion (2002 to 2003) ................................................
12
Planning
begins ........................................................................................................
12
Detailed
planning for UORs begins ....................................................................
25
The
decision to deploy ground forces to the South and its
implications ...................
43
Concerns
about Combat ID ................................................................................
53
Progress on
UORs .............................................................................................
56
The
situation in the week before the invasion ...........................................................
66
Issues that
emerged post-invasion .................................................................................
69
Desert
uniforms ........................................................................................................
77
Enhanced
Combat Body Armour ..............................................................................
80
Biological
and chemical warfare protection ..............................................................
84
Ammunition ...............................................................................................................
90
Combat
ID .................................................................................................................
92
Asset
tracking ...........................................................................................................
93
MOD
reflections on equipping the forces deployed for the
conflict ...........................
99
Conclusions ..................................................................................................................
106
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