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Book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves  Strengthening America s Defenses in the New Security Environment

Download or read book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Strengthening America s Defenses in the New Security Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves was established by the Ronald Reagan National Defense Authorization Act of 2005. Congress chartered the 13-member body to conduct a comprehensive, independent assessment of the reserve components of the United States. The purpose of the assessment is expressed in the following mission To identify and recommend changes in policy, law, regulation, and practice to ensure that the National Guard and Reserves are organized, trained, equipped, compensated, and supported to best meet the national security requirements of the United States. The United States Congress has directed the panel to deliver three separate reports to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees: " An initial organizational report due within 90 days of the Commission s " A second report providing our recommendations and supporting analyses on a set of specific legislative proposals bearing predominantly on matters related to the National Guard, no later than " A concluding report providing our final assessments, findings, and recommendations, no later than January 31, 2008. The first of these reports, detailing the status of the Commission s organization and the progress of our work, was submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on June 5, 2006. The report is available on the Commission s Web site, www.cngr.gov. The report we submit herewith is the second of our three products, and responds to the instructions set forth in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (P.L. 109-364). The law directed the Commission to report to Congress, no later than March 1, 2007, on the advisability and feasibility of 17 proposals bearing mainly on the status and activities of the National Guard Bureau, its Chief, and related matters.

Book The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves  Strengthening America s Defenses in the New Security Environment

Download or read book The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Strengthening America s Defenses in the New Security Environment written by Commission on Commission on the National Guard and Reserves and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Congress has directed the panel to deliver three separate reports to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees: An initial organizational report due within 90 days of the Commission's first official meeting. A second report providing our recommendations and supporting analyses on a set of specific legislative proposals bearing predominantly on matters related to the National Guard, no later than March 1, 2007. A concluding report providing our final assessments, findings, and recommendations, no later than January 31, 2008. The first of these reports, detailing the status of the Commission's organization and the progress of our work, was submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on June 5, 2006. The report we submit herewith is the second of our three products, and responds to the instructions set forth in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (P.L. 109-364). The law directed the Commission to report to Congress, no later than March 1, 2007, on the advisability and feasibility of 17 proposals bearing mainly on the status and activities of the National Guard Bureau, its Chief, and related matters.

Book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves  Strengthening America s Defense in the New Security Environment

Download or read book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Strengthening America s Defense in the New Security Environment written by Commission on Commission on the National Guard and Reserves and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves was established by the Ronald Reagan National Defense Authorization Act of 2005. Congress chartered the 13-member body to conduct a comprehensive, independent assessment of the reserve components of the United States. The purpose of the assessment is expressed in the following mission statement: To identify and recommend changes in policy, law, regulation, and practice to ensure that the National Guard and Reserves are organized, trained, equipped, compensated, and supported to best meet the national security requirements of the United States.

Book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves  Transforming the National Guard and Reserves Into a 21st Century Operational Force

Download or read book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Transforming the National Guard and Reserves Into a 21st Century Operational Force written by Arnold L. Punaro and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission was chartered by Congress to assess the reserve component of the U.S. military and to recommend changes to ensure that the National Guard and other reserve components are organized, trained, equipped, compensated, and supported to best meet the needs of U.S. nat. security. Contents: Creating a Sustainable Operational Reserve; Enhancing the DoD¿s Role in the Homeland; Creating a Continuum of Service: Personnel Mgmt. for an Integrated Total Force; Developing a Ready, Capable, and Available Operational Reserve; Supporting Service Members, Families, and Employers; Reforming the Organizations and Institutions That Support an Operational Reserve; and Commission for the Total Operational Force. Illus.

Book Second Report to Congress by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves

Download or read book Second Report to Congress by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves  Transforming the National Guard and Reserves Into a 21st Century Operational Force

Download or read book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Transforming the National Guard and Reserves Into a 21st Century Operational Force written by Commission on Commission on the National Guard and Reserves and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the rst step in a comprehensive reevaluation of the reserve components of the U.S. military in which the legislature and general public soon should join. In reviewing the past several decades of heavy use of the reserve components, most notably as an integral part of recent operations in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in the homeland, the Commission has found indisputable and overwhelming evidence of the need for change. Policymakers and the military must break with outdated policies and processes and implement fundamental, thorough reforms. Many of today's profound challenges to the National Guard and Reserves will persist, notwithstanding force reductions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The need for major reforms is urgent regardless of the outcome of current con icts or the political turmoil surrounding them. The Commission believes the nation must look past the immediate and compelling challenges raised by these con icts and focus on the long-term future of the National Guard and Reserves and on the United States' enduring national security interests. In our nal report, the Commission rst assesses the necessity, feasibility, and sustainability of the so-called operational reserve, which is signi cantly different from the strategic reserve of the Cold War. We assess the unplanned evolution to an operational reserve. We then evaluate the factors that should in uence the decision whether to create a truly operational reserve force, including the threats to our nation in the current and emerging security environment; the military capabilities, both operational and strategic, necessary to keep America secure in this environment; the urgent scal challenges caused by the spiraling costs of mandatory entitlement programs and ever-increasing cost of military personnel; and the cost and value to the nation of the National Guard and Reserves. And we consider the challenges the nation faces in funding, personnel policy, recruiting, equipment shortages, and other obstacles to creating a sustainable operational reserve force. Second, we assess the Department of Defense's role in the homeland and whether it is clearly de ned and suf cient to protect the nation; the role that the reserve components, as part of DOD, and other interagency partners should play in preparing for and responding to domestic emergencies; the role and direction of U.S. Northern Command, the joint command in charge of federal homeland defense and civil support activities; the role that states and their governors should play in homeland response; the need to rebalance forces to better address homeland response needs; and the implications of these assessments for the readiness of the reserve components. Third, we examine what changes need to occur to enable DOD to better manage its most precious resource-its people. We consider what attributes of a modern personnel management strategy would create a true continuum of service; how reserve component personnel should be evaluated, promoted, and compensated; what educational and work opportunities they should be given to maximize the return to the nation from their service; how DOD should track the civilian skills of reserve component members; whether the active and reserve personnel management systems should be integrated; why the prompt establishment of an integrated pay and personnel system is urgent; how many duty statuses there should be; and what changes need to be made to the active and reserve retirement systems to ensure that both serve force management objectives and are sustainable. Fourth, we explore what changes need to be made to develop an operational reserve that is ready for its array of overseas and homeland missions.

Book Air Force Journal of Logistics

Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aligning Ends  Ways  and Means

Download or read book Aligning Ends Ways and Means written by D. Robert Worley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four decades of relative stability in national security strategy, American behavior has been erratic in search of a new and sustainable role on the world stage. Rather than facing an ideologically driven great power alliance, the new threat appears to be emanating from failed or failing states. And rather than preparing to deter, and if necessary, defeat, a military super power the United States has entered into long, costly, and uncertain nation building efforts that are falling out of favor with the American public facing a deep recession. Nation building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have exposed an imbalance in the capabilities of the departments and agencies and an inability to achieve a unity of effort, a whole of government effort. High level commissions recommend a reallocation of resources to achieve a new balance in the instruments of power and major reorganizations to affect a better orchestration of the instruments. Others are completely redefining national security. Traditionally, threats to national security were military problems with military solutions. What were considered issues of foreign policy -- including pandemics and environmental degradation -- are increasingly cast as national security matters. They are not military problems with military solutions. A national security strategy aligns ends, ways, and means. Finding a new alignment must take place in an environment of a deep and wide recession, partisan gridlock, and uncertainty about the very meaning of national security. This book presents the reader with the information necessary to engage in an informed debate on national security strategy and the system that supports it.

Book The National Guard and the War on Terror

Download or read book The National Guard and the War on Terror written by Michael Dale Doubler and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program  U S  Strategic Command and U S  Cyber Command  Military posture  U S  Central Command and U S  Africa Command  U S  Northern Command and U S  Southern Command  U S  Pacific Command and U S  Forces Korea  Navy Posture  Army Posture  Army active and reserve force mix  Air Force posture  Recommendations of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force  Reform of the Defense Acquisition System

Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program U S Strategic Command and U S Cyber Command Military posture U S Central Command and U S Africa Command U S Northern Command and U S Southern Command U S Pacific Command and U S Forces Korea Navy Posture Army Posture Army active and reserve force mix Air Force posture Recommendations of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force Reform of the Defense Acquisition System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Orchestrating the Instruments of Power

Download or read book Orchestrating the Instruments of Power written by D. Robert Worley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Orchestrating the Instruments of Power, Worley presents the theories underlying choices in grand strategy, the instruments of power spread across the departments and agencies of government, the mechanisms for orchestrating the instruments, the major reforms proposed, and the political instabilities that make the reforms either necessary or unwise.

Book Responding to Catastrophic Events

Download or read book Responding to Catastrophic Events written by J. Larsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships of importance to the student of consequence management. These include the roles, responsibilities, and coordination requirements of first responders, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the military.

Book Public Statements of Robert M  Gates  Secretary of Defense  2006 2007

Download or read book Public Statements of Robert M Gates Secretary of Defense 2006 2007 written by Robert Michael Gates and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homeland Defense

Download or read book Homeland Defense written by Davi M. D'Agostino and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, the DoD established the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) to conduct homeland defense and civil support missions in and around the U.S. NORTHCOM must coordinate with the Nat. Guard Bureau (NGB), because NGB has experience dealing with state and local authorities during incidents and functions as NORTHCOM¿s formal link to the states. This report: determines the extent to which NORTHCOM has ongoing efforts to coordinate with the states and NGB in planning, exercises and other preparedness activities; and identifies the extent to which there are any gaps in this coordination. The author surveyed the state adjutants gen., the highest ranking guardsman in each state, and reviewed interagency coordination plans and guidance.

Book Air Force Magazine

Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves  Transforming the National Guard and Reserves Into a 21st Century Operational Force

Download or read book Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Transforming the National Guard and Reserves Into a 21st Century Operational Force written by Arnold L. Punaro and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive Summary of the Final Report by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves, which was chartered by Congress to assess the reserve component of the U.S. military and to recommend changes to ensure that the National Guard and other reserve components are organized, trained, equipped, compensated, and supported to best meet the needs of U.S. national security.