RAND Arroyo Center Research Brief: Strategies for an Expeditionary Army

Abstract

The Army is transforming itself so that, among other things, it can be more deployable. To get to the level of strategic responsiveness demanded by today's missions, the Army must be able to move rapidly forces that can carry out a wide range of missions. To that end, the Army has set three goals for the logistical component of its forces, known as combat service support (CSS) elements. Two of these goals, called power projection goals, aim at shrinking the size of the logistics elements that accompany deploying forces (the logistics "footprint") and reducing the amount of time it takes to move forces. As part of its Stryker and future force designs, the Army is pursuing a number of programs and innovative ideas to meet its power projection goals. Researchers from RAND Arroyo Center have distilled a number of strategies from these efforts and documented them in Combat Service Support Transformation: Emerging Strategies for Making the Power Projection Army a Reality. The aim is to provide a common understanding of these strategies and foster their broader adoption.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA429341

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Army
  • California
  • Combat Forces
  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Deployment
  • Efficiency
  • Employment
  • Infrastructure
  • Logistics
  • Military Research
  • Quality Of Life
  • Spare Parts
  • Stability Operations
  • Warfare
  • World Wide Web

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design