A Balance of Power-Army Transformation and Modernization in an Era of Persistent Conflict

Abstract

The enduring mission of the U.S. Army is to provide ready forces and land force capabilities to the Combatant Commanders in support of the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy and the National Military Strategy. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain if the U.S. Army transformation and modernization efforts are truly nested with the higher level security strategies, and likewise if these two initiatives are essential to the Army successfully meeting its mission to the Nation. If the Army's modernization and transformation strategy fails to balance ways and means to achieve the desired current and future force endstates, it will not be able to justify to Congress and the American people any increase of funding and/or resourcing support for the Army of today and tomorrow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 04, 2008
Accession Number
ADA487266

Entities

People

  • Matthew S. Kinkead

Organizations

  • National Defense University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Congress
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Second World War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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