Structuring the active and reserve army for the 21st century

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Label

Structuring the active and reserve army for the 21st century

Statement of responsibility

the Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office

Title variation

Structuring the active and reserve army for the twenty-first century

Creator

• Lussier, Frances M

Contributor

• United States, Congressional Budget Office

Subject

• Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures
• Armed Forces -- Combat sustainability
• Armed Forces -- Mobilization
• Armed Forces -- Operational readiness
• Armed Forces -- Organization
• Armed Forces -- Reserves
• Army
• Army operations
• Cold war
• Combat forces
• Combat readiness
• Costs
• Defense systems
• Global
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Military requirements
• Military reserves
• Missions
• National guard
• Operational readiness
• Peacekeeping
• United States
• United States -- Armed Forces | Operational readiness
• United States, Army
• United States, Army -- Appropriations and expenditures
• United States, Army -- Combat sustainability
• United States, Army -- Mobilization
• United States, Army -- Organization
• United States, Army -- Reserves
• Weapons
• Active duty

Language

eng

Summary

The U.S. Army's Cold War focus on the Soviet Union has shifted to fighting smaller conflicts against less formidable foes. Today's Army is also 30 percent smaller than it was a decade ago. In spite of those changes, the composition of the Army has not shifted markedly: the service remains almost equally divided between active-duty and reserve soldiers. A question under debate is whether that composition is well suited to the Army's current role. The Army hopes to make its force structure better suited to its current mission by converting some of the combat forces in the National Guard to support forces. That change would eliminate some of the excess combat forces; but it would not enable the Army to get to regional conflicts more quickly than it can today, nor would it improve the Army's ability to carry out peacekeeping operations. Finally, because the Army's plan would not reduce the overall size of the service, it would not yield significant savings; therefore, the Army may have difficulty finding the funds to acquire the modem weapons it will need

Member of

• CBO study

Additional physical form

Also issued in paper format.

Cataloging source

DTICE

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

UA25

LC item number

.L87 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

A CBO study