National Guard Enhanced Readiness Brigades: The Achilles Heel of Our National Military Strategy and What To Do About It.

Abstract

The warfighting readiness of the Army National Guard combat brigades (enhanced brigades) is more critical today than ever before. Changing defense needs due to the end of the cold war and budgetary constraints have increased reliance on enhanced brigades and on their ability to deploy within 90 days of mobilization to any number of regional conflicts. However, deficiencies noted during the brigades' mobilization for the Persian Gulf War raised questions about the time to be ready to deploy and training strategies. Is the dependence on the National Guard enhanced brigades to deploy to a theater trained and ready within 90 days of mobilization a sound strategy? This study assesses the capability of the enhanced brigades to meet this requirement, and offers recommendations to enhance their readiness posture. The implementation of these recommendations leads to systemic changes and better integration among all the components to insure the enhanced brigades are truly the nations strategic insurance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 07, 1997
Accession Number
ADA326580

Entities

People

  • Thomas M. Gross

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Forces
  • Congress
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Infantry Fighting Vehicles
  • Military Strategy
  • Militia
  • National Governments
  • National Guard
  • National Security
  • Training
  • Training Management
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.