Economic Force Structure and Veterans

Abstract

World tolerance of risk and waiting while potentially ominous situations develop is manifestly lower now than it has been in the past. As a nation contemplates the use of force in the role of first responder to a crisis, it is easier, cheaper, and more militarily effective to surge deployed forces than it is to deploy forces from home. However, there is an inherent tension between the desire to push more troops forward and being able to maintain a reservoir of capability to draw on be a crisis. Understanding and addressing this tension, particularly in smaller nations, is discussed here.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA544864

Entities

People

  • William Hatch

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Addressing
  • Availability
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Environment
  • First Responders
  • Force Structure
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Monitoring
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reservoirs

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies