Reserve Component Linguists in Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations.

Abstract

The Reserve Components (RC) supply 95 percent of the Army's wartime capability in civil affairs (CA) and 75 percent in psychological operations (PSYOP). While fairly well manned in terms of total personnel, these units are far short of the required number of linguists. In 1995, less than 10 percent of the RC language requirements in CA and PSYOP units could have been met with personnel possessing even elementary proficiency. To determine why this shortfall developed, the analysis discussed in this briefing looked into the retention, proficiency, and utilization of RC linguists in CA and PSYOP units.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA320288

Entities

People

  • Ronald E. Sortor

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Affairs
  • Foreign Languages
  • Language
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Operations
  • Psychological Tests
  • Recruiting
  • Training
  • Translators
  • United States
  • United States Special Operations Command

Fields of Study

  • Agricultural and Food sciences

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation