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Sustaining the Army's reserve components as an operational force / Christopher M. Schnaubelt [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schnaubelt, Christopher M., author.
- Series:
- Research report (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Training--United States--21st century.
- Soldiers.
- Deployment (Strategy).
- Military planning--United States--21st century.
- Military planning.
- Armed Forces--Operational readiness.
- Armed Forces--Reorganization.
- Military policy.
- Soldiers--Training.
- United States--Military policy--21st century.
- United States.
- United States. Army Reserve--Operational readiness.
- United States. Army Reserve--Reorganization.
- United States. Army Reserve.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 194 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2017.
- Summary:
- "This report identifies emerging policy lessons regarding the use of, and reforms to, the U.S. Army's Reserve Components (RCs) as an operational reserve derived from analyses of their contributions to Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn, and other recent contingency operations. These lessons can be applied to sustain the readiness of the U.S. Army Reserve and Army National Guard in future contingencies. Using historical and quantitative analyses, combined with in-depth interviews, this report documents the evolution of the policies involved in the development and employment of the operational reserve. It assesses the impact of operational reserve policies on sourcing decisions, examines how these policies affected the readiness of the RCs, and provides recommendations regarding future missions and force generation policy for the Army's RCs. This report concludes that the Army's current operational reserve concept evolved in response to the demands of overseas contingency operations, resulting in a force that is significantly more ready and capable than the pre-September 11 RCs. The ability to sustain this level of capability is at least as much a matter of the resources the Army can devote as it is a matter of policy."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The Reserve Components Today
- How the RCs Became an Operational Force: Supply or Demand?
- Understanding RCs' Readiness
- How Iraq and Afghanistan Affected the RCs' Readiness
- Sustaining the RCs as an Operational Force
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