Future Operational and Environmental Concerns Impacting the Army Transformation

Abstract

As the Army plans to create and employ the objective force, it is essential that environmental planning be front-loaded into the planning. There are ever more restrictive environmental concerns, including land use, pollution prevention and mitigation, protection of animal and plant species and waste management. If we do not plan early on to address these and other concerns the impacts on training, procurement, maintenance and waste disposal can be extremely costly. This paper looks at today's environmental regulations, practices and concerns. Then four scenarios looking at ten and twenty five years into the future are developed. The impact of the scenarios on transformation and the likelihood of each scenario are described. The final part of the paper provides recommendations to ensure the most advantageous circumstances for Army transformation occur.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 05, 2001
Accession Number
ADA390559

Entities

People

  • Brendan M. Burns

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Training
  • Congress
  • Environment
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Protection
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Public Policy
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

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