Download or read book Sustaining Combat Readiness During Peace Operations written by William J. Blankmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sustaining Combat Readiness During Peace Operations written by William J. Blankmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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 Peace Operations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detergent Pollution Control Legislation written by Thomas E. Schick and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Operations and Their Impact on Combat Readiness written by Joseph P. Nizolak and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book PEACE OPERATIONS Effect of Training Equipment and Other Factors on Unit Capability written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book U S Army Peace Operations in Kosovo written by John C. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current U.S. policy in Kosovo provides stability in this troubled region, but clearly commits the U.S. Army to long-term engagement. And while this overarching policy and U.S. involvement is important to the long-term stability of Kosovo and the entire Southeastern European region, it is expensive in terms of the U.S. Army's readiness and associated financial costs of sustaining a large military presence. It is time to review the current policy and its effectiveness in order to determine a way ahead that not only sustains critical U.S. leadership and involvement in the region, but also restructures the Army's role in order to improve combat readiness and reinvest limited defense dollars and other resources necessary to transform the Army to meet the needs of the 21st Century.
Download or read book Peace Operations written by Antonia Handler Chayes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Operations written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the impact of peace operations on the U.S. military forces' capability to respond to regional conflicts, focusing on the: (1) force structure limitations that affect the military's ability to respond to other national security requirements while engaged in peace operations; and (2) options available for increasing force flexibility and response capability. GAO found that: (1) peace operations have heavily stressed some U.S. military capabilities, including Army support forces and specialized Air Force aircraft; (2) because there are relatively few support forces in the military's active force, some of these units and personnel have been deployed to consecutive operations, the tempo of operations has increased, and the time available to prepare for combat missions has been reduced; (3) extended participation in multiple or large scale peace operations could impede the services' ability to timely respond to major regional conflicts (MRC); (4) disengaging support units and specialized aircraft from a peace operation and redeploying them to MRC could be more difficult than estimated because some of these units need training and supplies before deploying to another major operation; (5) the options available to DOD to meet the demands of peace operations while maintaining the capability to respond to MRC include changing the mix of active and reserve forces and making greater use of reserves and contractors; and (6) the United States needs to determine the resources it needs and degree of risk it is prepared to take if it wishes to continue participating in sizeable peace operations for extended periods and still maintain the capability needed to rapidly respond to simultaneous MRC.
Download or read book Training for Peace Operations written by J. Michael Hardesty and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Should We Use Our 911 Forces to Conduct Peacekeeping Operations What are the Implications on Readiness Operational Tempo OPTEMPO and Leadership written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army of the future faces the challenges of a decreased force that must respond to a Nation's calling whether in combat or Operations Other Than War (OOTW) such as peace operations. We can assume based on guidance provided by the National Security Strategy (NSS) and our senior leaders that peace operations will continue in the future. While this presents challenges to our basic warfighting mission it also has positive implications to the future Army. Until the 1st Cavalry Division deployed, the bulk of the forces assigned to peacekeeping came from Europe's two divisions and the 10th Mountain Division. By deciding to use "911" forces, those identified as first to deploy for contingency missions, to conduct peacekeeping operations the Army has taken steps to ease the impacts of OPTEMPO. Additionally, it has provided a training ground for future leaders while minimizing readiness impacts and still maintaining forces combat ready. Today and in the future the United States cannot afford to exclude a division and have it just focus on one particular spectrum of war. All forces must be able to operate within the full spectrum of future operations. This paper examines the implications of using "First to Fight" i.e. "911" Divisions for Operations Other Than War by specifically reviewing the impact on readiness, operational tempo (OPTEMPO) and leadership.
Download or read book The Use of Force in UN Peace Operations written by Trevor Findlay and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most vexing issues that has faced the international community since the end of the Cold War has been the use of force by the United Nations peacekeeping forces. UN intervention in civil wars, as in Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda, has thrown into stark relief the difficulty of peacekeepers operating in situations where consent to their presence and activities is fragile or incomplete and where there is little peace to keep. Complex questions arise in these circumstances. When and how should peacekeepers use force to protect themselves, to protect their mission, or, most troublingly, to ensure compliance by recalcitrant parties with peace accords? Is a peace enforcement role for peacekeepers possible or is this simply war by another name? Is there a grey zone between peacekeeping and peace enforcement? Trevor Findlay reveals the history of the use of force by UN peacekeepers from Sinai in the 1950s to Haiti in the 1990s. He untangles the arguments about the use of force in peace operations and sets these within the broader context of military doctrine and practice. Drawing on these insights the author examines proposals for future conduct of UN operations, including the formulation of UN peacekeeping doctrine and the establishment of a UN rapid reaction force.
Download or read book Facing the Hydra written by Conrad C. Crane and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Conrad Crane analyzes the impact of the war on terrorism and the requirements of the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review on the many essential missions conducted by the U.S. Armed Forces. Focusing primarily on the Army, he highlights the requirements associated with combat operations against terrorists, accelerating transformation and the new emphasis on homeland security and force protection. At the same time, he points out that the Army and the other Services must remain involved worldwide in day-to-day assurance, dissuasion, and deterrence activities; execution of peace operations and other smaller-scale contingencies; and remaining ready for other major combat operations. Dr. Crane asserts that these obligations require the Army to reshape and expand its force structure. Failure to do so places critical missions at risk around the world could lead to replacement of operational "victory" in the war on terrorism with strategic failure, as regional instability increases around the world."--SSI.
Download or read book Training the Force FM 7 0 written by Department of the Army and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U. S. Army exists for one reason—to serve the Nation. From the earliest days of its creation, the Army has embodied and defended the American way of life and its constitutional system of government. It will continue to answer the call to fight and win our Nation's wars, whenever and wherever they may occur. That is the Army's non-negotiable contract with the American people. The Army will do whatever the Nation asks it to do, from decisively winning wars to promoting and keeping the peace. To this end, the Army must be strategically responsive and ready to be dominant at every point across the full spectrum of military operations. Today, the Army must meet the challenge of a wider range of threats and a more complex set of operating environments while incorporating new and diverse technology. The Army meets these challenges through its core competencies: Shape the Security Environment, Prompt Response, Mobilize the Army, Forcible Entry Operations, Sustained Land Dominance and Support Civil Authorities. We must maintain combat readiness as our primary focus while transitioning to a more agile, versatile, lethal, and survivable Army. Doctrine represents a professional army's collective thinking about how it intends to fight, train, equip, and modernize. When the first edition of FM 25-100, Training the Force, was published in 1988, it represented a revolution in the way the Army trains. The doctrine articulated by FMs 25-100, Training the Force, and 25-101, Battle Focused Training, has served the Army well. These enduring principles of training remain sound; much of the content of these manuals remains valid for both today and well into the future. FM 7-0 updates FM 25-100 to our current operational environment and will soon be followed by FM 7-1, which will update FM 25-101. FM 7-0 is the Army's capstone training doctrine and is applicable to all units, at all levels, and in all components. While the examples in this manual are principally focused at division and below, FM 7-0 provides the essential fundamentals for all individual, leader, and unit training. Training for warfighting is our number one priority in peace and in war. Warfighting readiness is derived from tactical and technical competence and confidence. Competence relates to the ability to fight our doctrine through tactical and technical execution. Confidence is the individual and collective belief that we can do all things better than the adversary and the unit possesses the trust and will to accomplish the mission. FM 7-0 provides the training and leader development methodology that forms the foundation for developing competent and confident soldiers and units that will win decisively in any environment. Training is the means to achieve tactical and technical competence for specific tasks, conditions, and standards. Leader Development is the deliberate, continuous, sequential, and progressive process, based on Army values, that develops soldiers and civilians into competent and confident leaders capable of decisive action. Closing the gap between training, leader development, and battlefield performance has always been the critical challenge for any army. Overcoming this challenge requires achieving the correct balance between training management and training execution. Training management focuses leaders on the science of training in terms of resource efficiencies (such as people, time, and ammunition) measured against tasks and standards. Training execution focuses leaders on the art of leadership to develop trust, will, and teamwork under varying conditions—intangibles that must be developed to win decisively in combat.
