By Lynn E. Davis
Can the military maintain its present pace of out of the country deployment with out achieving the brink?
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The appendix provides backup documentation on Army force structure and the methods used to calculate AC time at home, RC utilization rates, number of ready AC brigades, individual soldier time away from home, and our cost estimates. CHAPTER TWO Employing the Active Component This chapter defines the types of active Army brigade-level elements considered in the analysis and then describes the range of future operational requirements that we posited. Based on those assumptions, it then assesses the effects when all of these deployments are satisfied using AC units.
30 Stretched Thin: Army Forces for Sustained Operations able amounts of time at home. The result is that at any given point, the Army has 10 heavy-medium brigades ready and seven infantry brigades ready. The numbers are appreciable, but not large; for example, 10 heavy-medium brigades are equivalent to a little more than three heavy divisions. By comparison, the United States sent more than five divisions to the Persian Gulf War in 1990. 5 the most striking result is the rapid decline in available units as requirements rise.
An Evolving System Our analysis will focus primarily on the above variations and policy measures. However, it should be noted that the modern Army is a rapidly changing institution with numerous new policies and initiatives under way. Two of these merit mention here because they are closely related to our topic. , chemical, military police, engineer, medical, quartermaster, and transportation specialties) (DoD, 2004a). These steps do not directly affect our analyses of combat brigades, but they would be very important for analysis of the Army’s support forces.