Deploying the Force: What the Reserve Components Can Add

Abstract

The Persian Gulf War and subsequent deployments of U.S. Army forces make it clear that units from the Reserve Components (RC) will play an important part in future operations. However, their specific role hinges on how quickly they can be ready for deployment. To gain empirical evidence on the speed with which RC units could be readied, RAND's Arroyo Center analyzed the deployment of over 600 support units during the Gulf War. The researchers also analyzed a notional scenario for a future Southwest Asia conflict to determine what allocation could reasonably be made between active Army and RC support units while still meeting deployment schedules. Results appear in Thomas F. Lippiatt et al., Mobilization and Train-Up Times for Army Reserve Component Support Units. Researchers found out that

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA389934

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Asia
  • Combat Forces
  • Deployment
  • Gulfs
  • Military Police
  • Military Research
  • Mobilization
  • Persian Gulf
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Regression Analysis
  • Southwest Asia
  • Training
  • War
  • Web Browsers
  • World Wide Web

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.