MINDING THE MISSIONS: MISSION SETS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY MILITARY RESERVE

Abstract

Twenty-first century United States federal military reserve mission sets matter to national security because the nation needs the right missions in reserve to maintain readiness and meet wartime demands. Each US service reserve takes on different types of mission sets and decides on mission sets in a service-specific vacuum without looking across the Department of Defense to achieve synergistic effects. The United States federal military reserve forces lack a unified methodology to decide which mission sets each reserve will perform, and this unsynchronized effort leaves the United States with a less effective reserve force. In an era of fiscal austerity, the Department of Defense cannot afford to purchase less than the full amount of military readiness that can be bought with each taxpayer dollar, and implementing the DepSecDef Mission Set Working Group and the OSD Reserve Affairs Reserve Integration Cell will set the United States on a course for the proper reserve capability to meet the nations requirements and maximize taxpayer investments for their defense

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 20, 2018
Accession Number
AD1051115

Entities

People

  • Marilyn G. Manifold

Organizations

  • Joint Forces Staff College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Coast Guard
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Reserves
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Security
  • United States

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  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.