By Albert A. Robbert
Even if the combination of energetic and reserve forces constituting the entire Air strength has shifted over the last decade's strength drawdown, discount rates have now not been proportional and should now not have considered results on different elements. This record units forth a suite of rules to assist strength planners and programmers realize the consequences for the associated fee, effectiveness, sustainability, and well known and political aid of army forces. A framework is equipped for integrating the diversity of concerns that decisionmakers face and for gaining viewpoint at the arguments voiced via curiosity teams who wish to persuade the strength combine. The authors locate that fee issues can reduce in contrary instructions looking on no matter if the strength is being optimized for significant theater struggle preparedness or for peacetime contingency operations.
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Cost Per Productive Flying Hour, C141 Squadrons 69 Page xiii Summary Introduction What should Air Force decisionmakers consider when making force-mix deliberations across each element of the total forceactive, Air Force Reserve (AFR), and the Air National Guard (ANG)? Generally, rational deliberations of force-mix decisions have focused on three factorscost, military effectiveness, and availability. However, these three factors may not be the only considerations that should apply in determining an appropriate force mix.
Perhaps more important, the considerations offer something of a basis for maintaining an RC within a democratic society. Militia-Nation Considerations The tradition of citizen soldiers in the United States dates back to before the nation was born, and then further back into Anglo-Saxon tradition in England. Part of our romantic understanding of the Revolutionary War is that of farmers laying down their plows and Page 16 picking up their muskets to drill and then to serve. 1 demonstrate. Section 8 of Article I gives Congress the power to federalize the militia as a means to achieve broader government objectives such as security and stability.
In FY 1998, the RC constituted 33 percent of the total strength and 16 percent of the total cost. In our review of the literature and in our interviews with AC and RC decisionmakers, we found no evidence that this shift occurred as part of a conscious force-mix strategy. Rather, it occurred as a result of many decisions, taken independently, regarding active component (AC) and reserve component (RC) force structure. 1 Strengths and Operating Costs SOURCES: FY 88 and 89 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 100-180), FY 88 DoD Appropriations Act (Public Law 100-202), FY 98 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 105-85), and FY 98 DoD Appropriations Act (Public Law 105-56).
