Download or read book Meeting Peace Operations Requirements While Maintaining MTW Readiness written by Jennifer M. Taw and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meeting Peace Operations Requirements While Maintaining MTW Readiness written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meeting Peace Operations Requirements While Maintaining MTW Readiness written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncertain Warriors written by David Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the US Army – disoriented by the end of the Cold War and struggling to appease domestic culture wars – spent the 1990s suffering from an identity crisis. This unique work will interest students and scholars of contemporary American military history.
Download or read book Military Agility written by Meir Finkel and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to quickly enter into conflict and succeed in the initial engagements is an enduring demand on militaries around the world. Given today's dynamic geopolitical environment, the concept of successful, rapid transition or organizational and mental readiness is more relevant than ever. Using the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a case study, Meir Finkel explores four important but generally neglected challenges of a swift transition from peace to wartime operations. He investigates the challenging mental transition from peace or routine security employment to a higher-intensity mode of action in combat. Then, Finkel explains that militaries must be capable of rapidly resolving debated prewar concepts and doctrine even as war breaks out. He also discusses how to integrate and employ new weapons systems delivered at the last minute or during a conflict. Lastly, he delves into methods for managing the tension between the need to win every tactical engagement in low-intensity conflict and the preparation of forces for a high-intensity conflict. With clear applications for the IDF and US armed services, Finkel's study offers specific examples of hard-to-accomplish rapid transitions as well as broad suggestions for how to improve readiness. Military Agility will appeal to military personnel and leadership, strategists, historians with an interest in comparative analysis, and policymakers.
Download or read book Mission Revolution written by Jennifer M. Taw and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Morrison Taw examines the military's sudden embrace of stability operations and their implications for American foreign policy and war.
Download or read book Cops Soldiers and Diplomats written by Tony Payan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats is an exceptionally clear exposition of bureaucratic behavior amongst various agencies as each responded to the challenges of the War on Drugs. Payan exposes the bureaucratic imperatives of the numerous agencies waging the drug war, uncovering some of the fundamental structural reasons why this war could not succeed within the United States.
Download or read book Maintaining the Strategic Edge written by Desmond Ball and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Military Psychology for Africa written by Gideon Van Dyk and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Psychology for Africa' is the first textbook of its kind from Africa. Selected authors with competent military psychology knowledge, skills, expertise and experience each contributed a chapter to this unique book. The book empowers academics, students and military fellows to apply this knowledge at academic institutions and military units, during operations, and in presenting short courses. The book will also equip soldiers with new knowledge for advancing peace on the continent and abroad.
Download or read book The Future of the Army Profession written by Lloyd J. Matthews and published by McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the future members of the Army profession and how is their competence to be certified to their client, the American people? This is a contemporary analysis of the Army profession, its knowledge and expertise, with conclusions and policy recommendations.
Download or read book Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff written by Gordon Lederman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 is the most important legislation to affecting U.S. national defense in the last 50 years. This act resulted from frustration in Congress and among certain military officers concerning what they believed to be the poor quality of military advice available to civilian decision-makers. It also derived from the U.S. military's perceived inability to conduct successful joint or multi-service operations. The act, passes after four years of legislative debate, designated the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal military advisor to the President and sought to foster greater cooperation among the military services. Goldwater-Nichols marks the latest attempt to balance competing tendencies within the Department of Defense, namely centralization versus decentralization and geographic versus functional distributions of power. As a result of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has achieved prominence, but his assignment is somewhat contradictory: the spokesman and thus the advocate for the Commander in Chief, while simultaneously the provider of objective advice to the President. While the act did succeed in strengthening the CINCs' authority and in contributing to the dramatic U.S. achievements in the Gulf War, the air and ground campaigns revealed weaknesses in the CINCs' capability to plan joint operations. In addition, the increased role of the military in ad hoc peacekeeping operations has challenged the U.S. military's current organizational structure for the quick deployment of troops from the various services. Rapid technological advances and post-Cold War strategic uncertainty also complicate the U.S. military's organizational structure.
Download or read book Selected Rand Abstracts written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963).
Download or read book Msl 401 Leadership and Management Textbook written by Rotc Cadet Command and published by McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior - 1st semester ROTC textbook
Download or read book The Silence of the UN Security Council written by Virgil Hawkins and published by EPAP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swarming and the Future of Warfare written by Sean J. A. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarming occurs when several military units conduct a convergent attack on a target from multiple axes. The author derives a simple theory that explains the phenomenology of swarming. He considers command and control, communications, home field advantage, surprise, fratricide, and training and identifies the primary variables to most important successful swarming.
