Where The U.S. Army Is Storing It's Combat Equipment Is Where It Anticipates The Next Conflicts Will Occur

An armored transport vehicle, known as an MRAP, at Forward Operating Base Goode near the town of Gardez in Afghanistan’s Paktia Province in July. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Army’s Plans to Relocate Gear Offer Map to Future Roles -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — In a significant indication of where the Army anticipates it will be deployed over coming years, and what it will be doing there, the service is planning to relocate some of its vast overseas stores of combat equipment and alter the contents of other warehouse stocks to reflect the changing nature of the mission after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Large numbers of MRAPs, the armored troop carriers built to withstand the blast of improvised explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan, would be stored in Italy, where they could be transported for contingencies across Africa. Those could include disaster relief in hostile environments, civilian evacuations or counterinsurgency assistance to local security forces.

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My Comment: Minus a big war .... Iran, North Korea, Middle East conflicts .... I can foresee US military forces engaging in many small conflicts in Africa. And then there is that pesky but continuous war against Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups.