The U.S. military's force structure : a primer / [Adam Talaber].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Talaber, Adam, author.

Contributor:

United States. Congressional Budget Office, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Armed Forces--Organization.

United States.

United States--Armed Forces--Equipment.

United States--Armed Forces--Costs.

United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Armed Forces--Equipment and supplies.

Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.

Armed Forces--Costs.

Armed Forces--Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 140 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

United States military's force structure

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, 2016.

Summary:

The U.S. military's capabilities and budget are determined primarily by its forces. This report describes each type of major combat unit's structure, function, strengths and limitations, past usage, size, and cost. The size and complexity of the U.S. armed forces can make it difficult to determine how the O&S budget is distributed among units. In this report, CBO analyzes the structure and cost of the military from the perspective of major combat units, such as Army brigades, Navy aircraft carrier strike groups, Marine Corps task forces, and Air Force squadrons. CBO allocates most of the O&S budget and DoD's total number of military personnel among major combat units--and their associated support units and overhead activities--to provide a clearer picture of the size and cost of the major elements of the military's force structure. Such information can help policymakers evaluate proposals to change the structure or budget of the armed forces. This report breaks down DoD's total number of military personnel and total operation and support budget and ascribes almost all personnel and O&S costs to major combat units according to three categories: Direct personnel and O&S costs--for a major combat unit itself; Indirect personnel and O&S costs--for the deployable units that support the major combat unit; and Overhead personnel and O&S costs--for the administrative functions within a service or DoD that are necessary to field the major combat unit and its supporting units.

Contents:

Summary

Introduction

Department of the Army

Department of the Nav.

Department of the Air Force

Defensewide activities

Size, costs and number of U.S. forces

Reconciling CBO's and DoD's Five-Year Tallies of Funding and Personnel

Military Operations and Planning Scenarios Referred to in This Report.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover page (CBO, viewed August 4, 2016).

"July 2016."

"Adam Talaber of CBO's National Security Division prepared the report with guidance from David Mosher and Matthew Goldberg. David Arthur, Elizabeth Bass, Michael Bennett, Daniel Frisk (formerly of CBO), Bernard Kempinski, Eric Labs, and Carla Tighe Murray provided comments or fact-checked the report. Bernard Kempinski also created the unit graphics for Chapters 2, 3, and 4"--About this document, page 140.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Talaber, Adam. U.S. military's force structure.

OCLC:

954724401