3.1.0. Generalized Scenario 
Introduction: Excerpts from reports of the Commission on Integrated 
Long Term Strategy, the Hudson Institute, and the Naval War College are 
combined in the present study (Section 2.0) to provide a credible con- 
sensus as to the future U.S. security environment. In this report that 
consensus has been related to a set of strategic threat factors for 
hypothesizing a credible potential crisis situation. The scenario pro- 
vides for a broad spectrum of functional military basing requirements. 
In this scenario the strategist can demonstrate attributes of alterna- 
tive war-fighting support structures as instruments of "Discriminate 
Deterrence" in a typical Third-World environment. 
The alternative Basing Systems, I and II, including U.S. Strategy 
and Crisis scene, are characterized by the deployment of MOBS in the 
first scenario and alternatively, by projecting current (circa 1990) 
war-fighting support structure without MOBS into the year 2000 time 
frame for the second scenario. 
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