30 Brigade Combat Teams: Is the Army too Small

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the impact of a contingency operation on Army dwell time. The Department of Defense (DOD) goal for the active Army is for every one year a unit is deployed, the unit gets two years at home. We use a simulation to model the number of times a Brigade Combat Team (BCT) deploys in support of a contingency operation over a specified period of time. This enables us to estimate the amount of time a unit was deployed and its dwell time. The results of the simulation show that the current force structure is not sufficient to sustain a prolonged contingency operation and support existing requirements. To meet the dwell time goal established by DOD, the Army must increase its capacity. In order to increase the number of BCTs, the Army will have to increase its end strength.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031013

Entities

People

  • Asfandyar Khan

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Combat Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Dwell Time
  • Force Structure
  • Governments
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Regression Analysis
  • Simulations
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.