Can the Army Deploy More Soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Abstract

In October 2008, the Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army asked RAND Arroyo Center to assess the demands placed upon the Army by deployments to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq. This request coincided with some public statements concerning the Army's capacity to deploy additional soldiers to OEF and OIF. To give the Army and other policymakers a fresh look at Army deployments, RAND analyzed data from the Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which tracks personnel involved in contingency operations. Arroyo's analysis addressed three broad issues: the number of soldiers who have deployed to date; the ratio of soldiers' deployed time to nondeployed time; and the number of soldiers who have not yet deployed and the reasons why they have not. Key Points: most of the Army's active-duty soldiers have deployed, many for the second or third time; to meet demand, the Army has sped up troop rotations to make more soldiers available; and the Army retains very limited capacity to deploy additional active-duty soldiers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553081

Entities

People

  • Kristin J. Leuschner

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Corporations
  • Data Centers
  • Deployment
  • Education
  • Health Care
  • Homeland Security
  • Infrastructure
  • Intellectual Property
  • Iraqi-War
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Public Safety
  • Security
  • War

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