Rethinking the Reserves

Abstract

The United States is now engaged in a different type of war--long-term, low-intensity conflict to stabilize Afghanistan and Iraq. In these stability operations, the Dept. of Defense (DoD) has made unprecedented use of its Reserve Components (RC). Forces that had previously been viewed as suitable for strategic missions, what we refer to here as the Strategic Reserve, and called up less than once in a generation, are now being used to manage operational force missions, what we refer here as the operational forces, with an expectation of call-up as much as one year in six and recently, even more frequency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA490282

Entities

People

  • Jacob Alex Lex Klerman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army Personnel
  • Economic Models
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Homeland Security
  • Iraqi-War
  • Law
  • Military History
  • Military Reserves
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies