Author: James A. Dewar Publisher: RAND Corporation ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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This text discusses the current state of Army readiness and expandability as well as strategies and scenarios to prepare for light, heavy or rapid expandability needs. This assesment of the costs and benefits of the options also recommends action to enhance the Army's ability in the future.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Military planning Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Army actively studies and plans for near-term mobilization (the readying of reserves for action). Reconstitution-or adding new units to the Army-hasn't been studied seriously since then- President George Bush made it an important element in his post- Cold War defense policy in 1992. Current thinking, as expressed in the recent Quadrennial Defense Review, is that a global peer competitor-the primary reason for thinking about reconstitution of the Army-is unlikely to emerge in the period between now and 2015. If expandability is thought of as any increase in the capabilities of the Army beyond its current ready forces, there are at least three reasons for considering all expandability options in today's strategic planning out to 2015.
Author: John J. Mcgrath Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105056155 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 121
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This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to develop a general historical ratio. This ratio is called the Tooth-to-Tail Ratio. McGrath's study finds that this ratio, among types of deployed US forces, has steadily declined since World War II, just as the nature of warfare itself has changed. At the same time, the percentage of deployed forces devoted to logistics functions and to base and life support functions have increased, especially with the advent of the large-scale of use of civilian contractors. This work provides a unique analysis of the size and composition of military forces as found in historical patterns. Extensively illustrated with charts, diagrams, and tables. (Originally published by the Combat Studies Institute Press)
Author: Stephan Frühling Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317817850 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is a question that is more pertinent than ever, as countries across the Asia-Pacific are faced with the military and economic rise of China. Uncertainty is inherent in defence planning, but different types of uncertainty mean that countries need to approach decisions about military force structure in different ways. This book examines four different basic frameworks for defence planning, and demonstrates how states can make decisions coherently about the structure and posture of their defence forces despite strategic uncertainty. It draws on case studies from the United States, Australian and New Zealand, each of which developed key concepts for their particular circumstances and risk perception in Asia. Success as well as failure in developing coherent defence planning frameworks holds lessons for the United States and other countries as they consider how best to structure their military forces for the uncertain challenges of the future.
Author: Rand Corporation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Abstracts Languages : en Pages : 200
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Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963).
Author: Mark J. Eitelberg Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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This book will appeal to persons interested in national security issues and, more specifically, to those who may want to know more about the manpower and recruiting problems facing the military of the future. The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and academic disciplines--including economics, political science, psychology, sociology, operations research, education, and public administration. This book will also appeal to persons interested in human resource issues beyond the military, as well as those interested in tracking trends in the labor force, public opinion, education, youth attitudes, or society in general.
Author: Robert J. Lempert Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833034855 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 211
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A sophisticated reader ought to view with great skepticism the prospect of answering questions about the long-term future. The checkered history of predicting the future-from the famous declarations that humans would never fly to the Limits to Growth study to claims about the "New Economy"-has dissuaded policymakers from considering the effects of their decisions more than a few months or years ahead. However, today's choices will significantly influence the course of the twenty-first century. New analytic methods, enabled by modern computers, may transform our ability to reason systematically about the long term. This report reviews traditional methods of grappling with the morrow, from narratives to scenario analysis, which fail to address the multiplicity of plausible long-term futures. The authors demonstrate a quantitative approach to long-term policy analysis (LTPA). Robust decision methods enable decisionmakers to examine a vast range of plausible futures and design near-term, often adaptive, strategies to be robust across them. Reframing the question "What will the long-term future bring?" as "How can we choose actions today that will be consistent with our long-term interests?" these methods provide powerful analytic support to humans' innate capacity for "what-if-ing." Choosing the challenge of sustainable development as an example, the authors discuss how these methods may be applied to real-world LTPA and a wide range of other challenges of decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty.
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