[GZG] [SG] Rapid force projection

I found an old post by Jay Manifold.
http://www.chicagoboyz.net/archives/001650.html

He notes that when it comes to force projection, a nuclear warhead on an ICBM
can be delivered anywhere on the globe in under an hour, but is very
indiscriminate. On the other hand, an army battalion is much more
discriminate, but is only deliverable on a timescale of weeks to months.

If you make this into a graph, you will notice there is a conspicuous hole
where one would put a force projection scheme that is both rapidly
deliverable, and discriminate.

He notes that there was a solution proposed almost thirty years ago, a
ballistics troop transport called Ithacus.
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ithacus.htm