Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC): A Critical Look.

Abstract

The United States adopted the BRAC process as a national strategy to resolve the political, economic and military issue of excess base capacity. The excess capacity was created by the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the U.S. victory in the cold war. These events quickly lead to the demand for peace dividends and the downsizing of the military, and a shift of money to other programs. The savings from closing excess bases according to the Government Accounting Office (GAO) based on the twenty year net present value of savings from the Department of Defense's (DOD) recommendations will be 17.3 billion dollars, with annual recurring savings of almost 1.8 billion dollars. The intent of this article is to take a critical look at BRAC to determine how the process has worked and how it could be improved.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 05, 1996
Accession Number
ADA309463

Entities

People

  • Robert A. Hobbs

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Base Closures
  • California
  • Cold War
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Force Structure
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • Money
  • Public Administration
  • Supreme Court
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Economics
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting