This monograph examines current MOUT initiatives and their potential impact on U.S. Army preparedness in future MOUT operations. The purpose of this examination was to determine if; "By the year 2005, the Army will have maximized the potential of current Army MOUT initiatives?" The monograph uses the 1994 Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on MOBA as one of its primary sources. Additionally, the monograph has a historical review of recent MOUT operations that identified lessons learned. The three operations were: the U.S. 1989 Operation JUST CAUSE; the 1994 Russian operation in Grozny; and the 1993 UN Operation UNOSOM II in Mogadishu, Somalia. The 1994 recommendations of the DSB are examined against current MOUT ACTD technical solutions in order to evaluate the appropriateness of initiatives based on recent lessons learned. The 1994 DSB Task Force also recommended that MOUT be treated as a system of systems. This monograph focuses on the following MOUT systems: technology, training, and doctrine. This monograph reviewed the current state of MOUT training facilities for quality, size, and ability to support combined arms operations. U.S. Army MOUT doctrine was reviewed with focus on the development of current MOUT doctrine and how it will support Joint Vision 2010 doctrine. This study concluded that the technical initiatives being developed through the ACTD would provide U.S. Army soldiers with better MOUT equipment. However, MOUT training and MOUT doctrine are not being developed with the same resolution as MOUT technology and therefore the U.S. is not maximizing the potential of its current MOUT initiatives.

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