Intervening in Short-Warning Conflicts The Role of a Rapidly Employable Joint Force

Abstract

A key element of the Department of Defense's effort to "transform the force" is developing capabilities for rapidly employable joint task forces (JTFs). In many plausible military interventions along the ill-defined spectrum of small scale to large scale conflicts, long range precision fires alone would not be sufficient, and the JTFs would need ground-maneuver forces employable within days of a decision to take action. The RAND team recommends a three component first week ground force of Army and Marine Corps units that would incorporate The RAND analysis integrates work accomplished for recent Defense Science Board summer studies, a 1999 study for the Department of Defense on force transformation, and several other efforts for DoD and Army sponsors. It also reflects much relevant experience of the Marine Corps. The remainder of this brief elaborates on the team's conclusions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA381399

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Vehicles
  • Army
  • Attack Helicopters
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Indirect Fire
  • Information Systems
  • Marine Corps
  • National Security
  • Sea Based
  • Second World War
  • Situational Awareness
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.