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Author: William J. Blankmeyer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Military doctrine Languages : en Pages : 0
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The United States Army has become a key component of our national security strategy of engagement abroad to promote peace and prosperity at home. On any given day, American soldiers can be found in over 70 countries participating in training exercises and contingency operations, most of which focus on peacekeeping. However, there are significant costs and risks associated with this strategy. Not only has the OPTEMPO greatly increased for our down-sized Army, but our ability to transition from peacekeeping operations to fighting two nearly simultaneous major theater wars may be in question. This paper will first review how peace operations degrade the combat readiness of Army units. It will then offer a "warfighter management program" designed to sustain combat readiness during extended peace operations. This program is based on the lessons learned by U.S. Army Europe while supporting Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR in Bosnia.
Author: William J. Blankmeyer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Military doctrine Languages : en Pages : 0
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The United States Army has become a key component of our national security strategy of engagement abroad to promote peace and prosperity at home. On any given day, American soldiers can be found in over 70 countries participating in training exercises and contingency operations, most of which focus on peacekeeping. However, there are significant costs and risks associated with this strategy. Not only has the OPTEMPO greatly increased for our down-sized Army, but our ability to transition from peacekeeping operations to fighting two nearly simultaneous major theater wars may be in question. This paper will first review how peace operations degrade the combat readiness of Army units. It will then offer a "warfighter management program" designed to sustain combat readiness during extended peace operations. This program is based on the lessons learned by U.S. Army Europe while supporting Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR in Bosnia.
Author: Jennifer M. Taw Publisher: RAND Corporation ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 102
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Peace operations (POs) are arguably the military operations other than war most likely to stress the U.S. Army's ability to maintain combat readiness. POs require: a higher ratio of combat support/combat service support units and special operations forces relative to combat arms units than do major theater wars (MTWs); smaller, more tailored deployments; training for some new tasks and, more important, for a more restrictive and sensitive operational environment; and readier access to--and more of--some kinds of equipment (such as crowd and riot-control gear, nonlethal weapons, and vehicles). At a time when the Army is shrinking, changing its posture, and participating in a rising number of both exercises and operational deployments, its challenge is to both maintain MTW readiness (its primary mission) and meet the very different requirements of POs. As long as MTWs remain the national priority--and thus the Army's--the Army can make some marginal changes to force structure, training, and doctrine that will help improve PO performance while also mitigating the effects of PO deployments on MTW readiness. If POs become a higher priority, and resources remain constrained, the Army will have to trade off some MTW capabilities to better meet PO requirements. These challenges must also be viewed in light of existing Army problems (such as maintaining units at levels below normal strength and overestimating the readiness of the reserve component), which transcend POs but are severely exacerbated by PO deployments.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This project examined the dilemma currently facing the U.S. Army: to prepare for and fight the nation's wars (its primary mission) while also preparing for and conducting peace operations (POs). If it prepares more intensively for POs (those deployments it is actually undertaking), those efforts are unlikely to translate into greater readiness for its primary mission and, in many cases, will result in a degradation of conventional combat readiness. The analysis is based on a series of case studies, an extensive literature review, and interviews with U.S. Army personnel representing combat service and combat service support (CS/CSS), combat arms, and special operations forces (SOF) units; many of those we interviewed were veterans of one or more of the operations in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Macedonia.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : International police Languages : en Pages : 86
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This project examined the dilemma currently facing the U.S. Army: to prepare for and fight the nation's wars (its primary mission) while also preparing for and conducting peace operations (POs). If it prepares more intensively for POs (those deployments it is actually undertaking), those efforts are unlikely to translate into greater readiness for its primary mission and, in many cases, will result in a degradation of conventional combat readiness. The analysis is based on a series of case studies, an extensive literature review, and interviews with U.S. Army personnel representing combat service and combat service support (CS/CSS), combat arms, and special operations forces (SOF) units; many of those we interviewed were veterans of one or more of the operations in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Macedonia.
Author: Joseph P. Nizolak Publisher: ISBN: Category : Combat sustainability (Military science) Languages : en Pages : 42
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The "Respond" portion of U.S. Military strategy "Shape, Respond, Prepare Now" along with post Cold War downsizing has transformed the Armed Forces of the United States into a force projection military. Every commander, leader, and soldier must be trained and ready to deploy and fight with minimum notice. The "Shape" portion of our military strategy has resulted in numerous deployments to conduct Peace Operations where we are focused on not fighting but preventing war. We often hear that future combat will be "come as you are" wars with little if any time to ramp-up our warfighting skills to their highest levels. This requirement demands that our forces be focused on their warfighting tasks. There are only so many training days available to a peacetime army ... 241 once weekends and holidays are stripped out. For a deployment force on a Support-Mission-Training cycle has those 241 days are reduced to 161. The average peace operation deployment time for the Class of 1999 was 145 days. Subtracting the weekends from these 145 days to allow a better comparison leaves 105 days which reduces the training days for a unit deployed on a peace operation to 56 daysZ Is preparation for and conduct of Peace Operations reducing our readiness to perform our primary mission - to fight and win our nations wars? This paper analyzes the Peace Operations experiences of US Army War College students, our military's future senior leaders, with regards to how they view the impact of Peace Operations on readiness. Using survey results from the 1997, 1998, and 1999 resident classes, we find a changing attitude concerning Peace Operations, their effect on readiness, and their role in preparing our forces to fight and win the next war.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military has become increasingly involved in peace operations. As requested by the former Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Armed Services, GAO examined (1) how the services incorporate peace operations into their various training programs, (2) what effect peace operations have on maintaining combat readiness, and (3) whether the services have the weapon systems and equipment they need for these operations. GAO did not assess whether the United States should participate in peace operations.
Author: William J. Blankmeyer
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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Author: Antonia Handler Chayes