| Reduced Manning in DDG 51 Class Warships: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Ahead for Reduced Manning on all United States Navy Ships |
18 MAR 2004 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
James B. Hinkle; Terry L. Glover; ANTEON CORP ARLINGTON VA
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 | In an effort to move forward smartly with initiatives to reduce manning in U.S. Navy combatants, the Program Executive Office, Ships, commissioned a study to examine and analyze alternatives to reduce manning for Arleigh Burke Class ships with the expectation that lessons learned from this effort would not only benefit current and future flights of DDG 51 Class ships, but would also benefit future ship classes, particularly the DD(X) family ... |
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| Transforming Army Financial Management Support to Brigade Combat Teams and Divisions |
12 MAR 2004 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald C. Mixan; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Finance Corps is at the crossroads of its existence. Recently, the Commandant of the Finance Corps published two memoranda that provide the concept and details of the latest approved Financial Management Redesign (FMR). The FMR recognizes and incorporates resource management as an integral part of deployable financial management while identifying procurement operations in support of sustaining forces as a priority. The FMR provides a deliberate transformation that expands force ... |
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| Army Transformation and Modernization: Overview and Issues for Congress |
11 MAR 2004 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Edward F. Bruner; DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIV FT BELVOIR VA
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| Modernization is not a new issue or objective for U.S. military forces but it has taken on new urgency because of: the post-Cold War downsizing and procurement reductions, the new global environment and unexpected requirements, and the promise of a "revolution in military affairs" (RMA) suggested by rapid developments in computers, communications, and guidance systems. The last notable surge in modernization culminated during the "Reagan build-up" of the 1980's. Weapons ... |
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| Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress |
05 MAR 2004 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
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| This Issue Brief examines the Department of Defense's (DoD) four largest tactical aircraft modernization programs. The background section provides a brief description of each program, and a discussion of how tactical aircraft fit into military air operations (i.e., the missions they typically perform, and how they contrast to long-range combat aircraft). The Analysis section examines a number of policy issues, including affordability, capability required, force structure, service roles and missions, ... |
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| Multiscale Representations Phase II |
MAR 2004 |
78 pages |
| Authors:
Yaneer Bar-Yam; NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INST CAMBRIDGE MA
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| This report focuses on the assessment of military capabilities and military technology and the process of military modernization. Multiscale analysis provides an analytic tool that can be applied to evaluating force capabilities as well as the relevance of designs for technological innovations to support force structures and their modernization. Evolutionary engineering is a synthetic approach to complex systems development that is relevant to the creation of integrated and highly complex ... |
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| Decision Support System for Management of Military Constructions |
MAR 2004 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Adel Boukraa; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis is primarily concerned with automations support for an organization in charge of the construction and modification of buildings for military bases and civilian construction during disaster relief. The first issue at hand is the need to know how this organization functions manually and the participation of each department in daily work. Use Case Analysis was applied to understand the business process and an UML model was created to ... |
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| Toward an Expeditionary Army: New Options for Combatant Commanders |
MAR 2004 |
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| Authors:
Eric Peltz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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 | Statement of Eric Peltz, before the Committee on Armed Services U.S. House of Representatives March 24, 2004. Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I would like to thank you and the committee for inviting us to testify today on Army prepositioning. RAND's Arroyo Center is the Army's Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) for studies and policy analyses. Over the last few years, the RAND Arroyo Center has ... |
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| The Outlier: Japan between Asia and the West |
MAR 2004 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
John H. Miller; ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES HONOLULU HI
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| Throughout its history, Japan has been an outlier, a country "in" but in many ways not "of" Asia. In premodern times it was set off by its feudal order, its refusal to participate in the Chinese tributary system, and its withdrawal into national seclusion. Modern Japan has oscillated, at times violently, between Asia and the West. In the late 19th century, it "quit Asia" and joined the West, remaking itself ... |
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| The Consolidation of Administrative Functions for U.S. Marine Forces, Pacific |
MAR 2004 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick E. Allen; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Marine Administrative Message 441/99 directed that Marine Corps administration be consolidated above the battalion level, Secondly, Marine Administrative Message 027/04 directed that over 1,300 Marine Corps billets be civilianized To embrace both of these directives, this thesis has attempted to describe the consolidation of administrative functions within U'S, Marine Forces, Pacific to the installation level and the civilianization all non- inherently-governmental structure, The active duty manpower savings would total 120 ... |
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| Towards an Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Technology on Future Contexts |
FEB 2004 |
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| Authors:
Peter J. Dortmans; Neville J. Curtis; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION SALISBURY (AUSTRALIA) SYSTEMS SCIENCES LAB
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| This report provides a framework that supports the capture, classification and collation of technological trends and innovations from their earliest appearance right through to their impact on military thought, both directly, through military application, and indirectly, through impacts on the future context. The approach is centred on postulated effects-based technology concepts, determined through combinations of enabling technologies and designed against delivering required battlespace effects. Such a framework provides the capacity ... |
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| Army Digitization: Making it Ready for Prime Time |
01-Jan-2004 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J Toomey; COMBAT ENGINEER GROUP (555TH) FORT LEWIS WA
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| Today's emerging strategic environment and operational challenges demand that the Army develop a more responsive and mobile force while maintaining the lethality. The Army's commitment to creating a digitized force elicits some key questions about how the Army will make the transition from an analog force in the face of rapidly changing technology while maintaining the capability to meet key strategic and operational challenges. The current state of Army digitization ... |
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| A Review of Selected Nanotechnology Topics and Their Potential Military Applications |
JAN 2004 |
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| Authors:
Jun Wang; Peter J. Dortmans; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION SALISBURY (AUSTRALIA) SYSTEMS SCIENCES LAB
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| This report presents the review of progress in selected nanotechology topics and some possible applications. We survey four major branches within the field: nanotubes, quantum dots, nanomaterials and nanodevices. For each of these, we review the underlying scientific concepts, potential enabling technologies and current limitations to the realisation of nanotechnology applications. Possible implications for the future Land Force are discussed by examining potential nanotechnology impacts across seven core military skills ... |
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| iMAST Quarterly, Number 4, 2004 |
Jan-2004 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORY STATE COLLEGE PA
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| In support of the next generation aircraft carrier, the CVN 21 class, Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN) has developed a long term strategic plan to modernize their shipyard. In this plan, several new facility construction projects have been proposed that will increase the level of complex outfitting and assembly that typically occurs throughout the ship construction cycle. These new facilities provide controlled environments that will enable schedule and cost improvements ... |
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| Broadening the Army's Bandwidth |
2004 |
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| Authors:
RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| The Army is transforming itself from a heavy Cold War force to a much more agile one, which it has dubbed the future force. A crucial part of that transformation requires the Army to shift its communications from being segmented to being networked. The difference is that in the former it is easy to communicate up and down vertical communication stovepipes but not across them. In the latter, any node ... |
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| Transforming for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations |
2004 |
147 pages |
| Authors:
Hans Binnendijk; Stuart E. Johnson; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| Recent military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq were characterized by the rapid defeat of enemy military forces, by relatively small deployments of American forces, and by a very limited destruction of the critical civilian infrastructure. This success can be credited in large part to the ongoing transformation of the U.S. military evident in its effective use of information superiority, precision strike, and rapid maneuver on the battlefield. The Armed Forces ... |
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| Annual Report to the President and the Congress |
2004 |
181 pages |
| Authors:
Donald H. Rumsfeld; OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC
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| When this Administration took office, the President charged us with a mission - to challenge the status quo, and prepare the Department of Defense to meet the new threats our nation will face as the 21st century unfolds. This transformation mission has been seized against a backdrop of a global war on terrorism. The need to transform to face a new century was highlighted by the enemy that attacked us ... |
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| Naval Transformation Roadmap: Power and Access...From the Sea |
2004 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Gordon England; Vern Clark; James L. Jones; OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONSWASHINGTON DC
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| This Naval Transformation Roadmap describes how naval forces will achieve nine transformational warfighting capabilities, organized by a family of concepts that optimize and maximize advantages that are uniquely naval. Naval transformation will be captured by capitalizing on innovative concepts and technologies, and by employing processes to rapidly develop and integrate innovations into these forces. Inherent in every aspect of transformation is that naval forces will be, first and foremost, committed ... |
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| Final Environmental Assessment for the First Air Force Air Operations Center, First Air Force Headquarters/Air Force Forces Center, and Highway 98 Overpass at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida |
2004 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Air Force prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the potential environmental consequences of constructing modernized, centralized facilities for the newly formed 601st Air Operations Group (601 AOG) and a separate modernized, centralized facility to house the First Air Force (1 AF) and Air Force Forces (AFFOR) as well as a new overpass at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida. The EA was completed pursuant to the National Environmental Policy ... |
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| Conserving the Future Force Fighting Strength: Findings from the Army Medical Department Transformation Workshops, 2002 |
2004 |
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| Authors:
David E. Johnson; Gary Cecchine; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| The Army is in the process of transforming itself and is developing new operational concepts and technologies to enable this transformation. The Army Medical Department (AMEDD) has been deeply involved in the overall Army transformation effort since its inception, and it has identified operational medicine issues whose resolution will be critical to its ability to support the Army of the future. The purpose of this research was to develop a ... |
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| An Analysis on the Applicability of a Private Finance Initiative to Meet USMC Engineer Equipment Needs |
DEC 2003 |
94 pages |
| Authors:
Juan I. Arratia; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of supporting United States Marine Corps (USMC) Engineering Equipment operation and maintenance requirements through a Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The reason for this investigation is that the Marine Corps has realized that the current operating structure is not cost effective and that resources are being used up that could be better spent elsewhere. The report evaluates what a PFI is ... |
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| Analysis of Metrics Utilized in U.S. Joint Experimentation of Future C2 Concepts |
DEC 2003 |
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| Authors:
Gary Wheatley; EVIDENCE BASED RESEARCH INC VIENNA VA
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| The U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) has been charged to lead the transformation of the U.S. Armed Forces through development and experimentation of new command and control concepts. In particular, the Knowledge-C2 Working Group of the Concepts Division has focused on four related concepts: Adaptive Joint Command and Control (AJC2), Common Relevant Operational Picture (CROP) and the Collaborative Information Environment (CIE), Joint Interactive Planning (JIP), and Multinational Operations (MNOPS). This ... |
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| Asia's China Debate |
Dec-2003 |
137 pages |
| Authors:
Denny Roy; Robert G Wirsing; Alexander Y Mansourov; Mohan Maiik; Jim Rolfe; Seongho Sheen; Anthony L Smith; Satu P Limaye; Richard A Bitzinger; Christopher Jasparro; John Miller; Rouben Azizian; Yoichiro Sato; David Fouse; Bradley Mathews; ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES HONOLULU HI
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| China has been a prominent feature of the Asia-Pacific region's security landscape in a variety of forms. Now, however, its rapid economic growth--especially trade--diplomatic activism, and military modernization are developments that have significant implications for the entire region, including the United States. The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies teaching and research faculty, in an effort to better understand how countries in the region are thinking about and dealing with China, ... |
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| Lessons from the 1999 Round of NATO Enlargement |
DEC 2003 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin A. Lash; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| In the spring of 1999, The Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary all entered the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). These were the first former Warsaw Pact members to gain NATO accession since the Cold War ended with the dismemberment of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact between 1989 and 1991. Now, seven more states are near the end of their accession talks. Barring unforeseen events, all ... |
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| Transformation and Transition: DARPA's Role in Fostering an Emerging Revolution in Military Affairs. Volume 2- Detailed Assessments |
NOV 2003 |
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| Authors:
Richard H. Van Atta; Alethia Cook; Ivars Gutmanis; Michael J. Lippitz; Jasper Lupo; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| The Institute for Defense Analyses was tasked by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to assess the agency's role in effecting fundamental change in defense capabilities for the advantage of US military forces, focusing on what has been termed the post-Cold War "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA). The Overall Assessment from this task was documented in Transformation and Transition: DARPA s Role in Fostering An Enierging Revolution in Military ... |
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| Security Transformation |
NOV 2003 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Steven Metz; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| For the past 5 years, the United States has sought to transform its defense capabilities to reflect ongoing changes in technology, management techniques, the American political and economic landscapes, and the global security environment. The terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the ensuing Global War on Terrorism provided stark and tragic reminders of the need for such an adjustment. With American military forces engaged around the world in both combat ... |
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| Unit Manning |
31 OCT 2003 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Mike McGinniss; Dave Sanders; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY DEPT OFSYSTEM ENGINEERING
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| The Army has announced that Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) Three, presently the 172d Separate Infantry Brigade, U.S. Army Alaska, will be the first Army unit manned under the Unit Manning Initiative. The Army's intent for unit manning is to improve combat readiness and cohesion while setting conditions for improved soldier and family well-being. Unit manning synchronizes the assignment of soldiers with the life cycle of their unit. This decision ... |
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| Agent-based Systems Key Enabler for the Army's Future Force |
04 OCT 2003 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Dirk R. Klose; ARMY CECOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER FORT MONMOUTH NJ C2 AND SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DIRECTORATE
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| The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss several potential application areas for intelligent agent technology that will enable the US Army to rapidly transform itself from its current military organization and operational capabilities to that of a future, more modern force structure. The thrust of the US Army's transformation concept is to evolve to a lighter, leaner, faster, more highly mobile and agile, command-centric, combined arms force ... |
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| Center for Strategic Leadership, Issue Paper, October 2003, Volume 10- 03. Assisting Professional Militaries in Latin America: National Security Strategy Development Workshop Held in La Paz, Bolivia on 28 July-1 August 2003 |
OCT 2003 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Bernard F. Giffard; Todd M. Wheeler; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Professionalization of their nation's military establishment is a challenge for some Latin American democracies because of the historical baggage carried by their armed forces. The populations of the countries concerned are often suspicious of providing these former repressive organizations with modern equipment and techniques. However, the reality is that the regions military organizations existing with less than adequate training and professional standards as well as operating in an under resources ... |
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| Army AL&T, September - October 2003 |
OCT 2003 |
60 pages |
| Authors:
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (ACQUISITION LOGISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY) FORT BELVOIR VA
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| This document is a report of the Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology publication for September and October 2003. |
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| The US and Canadian Army Strategies: Failures in Understanding |
SEP 2003 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen B. Appleton; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Organizational conception and business practice share much in common with military strategy. The two areas of study have had a mutually supportive relationship for decades. Particularly since the commencement of the 20th century, the business community has borrowed freely from and refined military thinking. This practice has been in large part credited with the enormous success of the industrial expansion of the United States and Canada. Many of today's multicorporations ... |
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| After the 16th Party Congress: The Civil and the Military |
SEP 2003 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Andy Gudgel; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Over 50 experts in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) gathered at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, from September 19-21, to attend the 2003 PLA Conference. Cosponsored by the U.S. Army War College, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute, the conference was titled "After the 16th Party Congress: The Civil and the Military." The closing of the 16th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and subsequent personnel appointments ... |
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| Defense Horizons. Number 32, September 2003. A New PPBS Process to Advance Transformation |
SEP 2003 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Stuart E. Johnson; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| Defense Science Board Task Force on The Role and Status of DoD Red Teaming Activities |
SEP 2003 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC
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| The Task Force was charged to examine the use of red teams in the Department of Defense and recommend ways that such teams could be of greater value to the department. Our Terms of Reference and task force membership are provided in Appendices 1 and 2. Our usage of the term red team includes not only "playing" adversaries or competitors, but also serving as devil's advocates, offering alternative interpretations (team ... |
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| The People's Liberation Army and China in Transition |
AUG 2003 |
341 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen J. Flanagan; Michael E. Marti; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| The global war on terrorism has provided a new context for relations between the United States and China. As the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States of America makes clear, cooperation with China on a range of economic, political, security, and military issues increasingly serves U.S. interests. At the same time, this relationship retains elements of competition and the potential for confrontation, compounded by a legacy of ... |
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| Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy |
25-Jul-2003 |
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| Authors:
Kenneth Katzman; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| While continuing previous U.S. Administrations' policies of containing Iran while pursuing limited engagement with it, the Bush Administration is evaluating whether or not to move toward a regime change policy, and how to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability. During the late 1990s, signs of moderation in Iran had stimulated the United States to engage Iran in official talks. Relations took a downturn when Iran was grouped with ... |
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| Discriminate Use of Force |
JUL 2003 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Ted Gold; Joshua Lederberg; DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC
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| Within a short time there has been markedly greater acceptance of the doctrine of governing military campaigns by discriminate use of force. Until very recently derided by some as an oxymoron, it has now been put forward by the President. As he said in his remarks aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, "With new tactics and precision weapons, we can now achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians." Our concept ... |
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| Armaments for Full Spectrum Warfare Conference & Exhibition Held in Parsippany, New Jersey on 23-25 June 2003 |
25 Jun 2003 |
1 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION ARLINGTON VA
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| The U.S. Army has been charged with developing capabilities to fight jointly and with coalition partners, to win across the full spectrum of warfare, while continuing the transformation to a lighter and more lethal force. This conference will present government, academia and industry perspectives on existing operational, logistical and technological challenges. It will discuss how these challenges are being met, while ensuring that the transformed force has the necessary advanced ... |
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| Leading Change: A Model for Transformation Initiatives in Today's U.S. Army? |
06 JUN 2003 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Richard S. Jeffress; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This research sought to determine the degree to John P. Kotter's 1996 model of Leading Change for transforming businesses could be applied to the Army's current Transformation initiative. The research used three historical examples--Ridgway's Eighth Army during the Korean War, the Pentomic Era of the 1950s, and AirLand Battle development in the 1970s-80s--as case studies to establish a basis for applying the model to military organizations. Today's Transformation Campaign was ... |
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| Extending the Operational Relevance of the Current Heavy Mechanized and Armor Force to 2020 and Beyond |
06 JUN 2003 |
81 pages |
| Authors:
Gerald A. Boston; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Can the U.S. Army's current heavy mechanized and armor force adapt emerging Joint Vision 2020 operational concepts, in order to remain relevant to the land power requirements of combatant commanders across the full range of military operations until the United States Army fields the objective force? This thesis analyses the capabilities of the current heavy force through the prism of the operational concepts articulated in Joint Vision 2020. Dominant maneuver, ... |
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| Evaluating the U.S. Military's Development of Strategic and Operational Doctrine for Non-Lethal Weapons in a Complex Security Environment |
06 JUN 2003 |
139 pages |
| Authors:
James S. Ogawa; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The end of the Cold War gave rise to a complex security environment resulting in a fundamental shift of focus from unrestricted warfare against a well-defined enemy towards a wide variety of military operations other than war (MOOTW) characterized by urbanized terrain, joint expeditions, non-state actors, and asymmetric threats. However, it is in exactly this kind of complex environment that non-lethal weapons (NLWs) can make major contributions by enabling more ... |
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| The Implementation of CRM at FISC Norfolk Detachment Philadelphia |
JUN 2003 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph A. Tierney; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Customer Relations Management (CRM) can be defined in many ways. In this thesis, it is defined as the business process an organization uses to provide exceptional acquisition services to existing customers to retain their business and to motivate prospective DOD commands to become new FISC Norfolk Detachment Philadelphia customers. The four key elements to a Customer Relations Management system are: (1) customer identification, (2) customer differentiation, (3) customer interaction, and ... |
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| Military Transformation as a Competitive Systemic Process: The Case of Japan and the United States Between the World Wars |
JUN 2003 |
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| Authors:
William D. O'Neil; CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| Specific individual military transformations achieve full significance only in the context of the broader processes of multiple interrelated transformations taking place in competition with those of one or more opponents. This study examines one historical case of broad systemic competitive processes to clarify the underlying dynamics: Japan and the United States between the two World Wars. The Armed Forces of both nations envisioned significant risk of war between themselves and ... |
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| Building an Iraqi Defense Force |
JUN 2003 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph McMillan; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| With the demise of the Saddam Hussein regime, a high priority must be the rebuilding of the Iraqi armed forces. The United States must supervise and assist in this task, but the template for the new force should not be the American model - a joint, highly trained, all-volunteer force that emphasizes quality over size. Iraq does not need and cannot produce such a U.S. style force. What Iraq does ... |
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| Reengineering Air Mobility: A Process Perspective |
JUN 2003 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
David T. DuHadway; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The nature of any successful business, government, or military is to be able to effectively deal with change. Change can come about as a result of societal or technological progress, or as an application of past experience. Given that change will, at some point, always be required, the question of how best to accomplish change needs to be addressed. Small-scale change is relatively easy to achieve, but change in large ... |
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| Strategic Airlift and the Objective Force Brigade |
JUN 2003 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey J. Waters; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This paper analyzes the projected inter-theater airlift requirements for the U.S. Army Objective Force brigade. The research focuses on analyzing these requirements and comparing them to the projected strategic airlift force structure in 2010 to determine if adequate airlift capability will be available to support the Army goal of deployment anywhere in the world within 96 hours. Background information describing the Army Transformation Program will present a framework for understanding ... |
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| Information Sufficiency and the Operational Commander: A Cautionary Tale |
16 MAY 2003 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Hank Kamradt; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The rapid military victory of U.S. and Coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) is already being hailed as evidence for the validation of the Secretary of Defense's vision of a transformed military: a force that is lighter, more mobile, more agile, more precise, more joint, more interoperable, and more lethal. A military heavily empowered by "information superiority" and "dominant battlespace awareness." The emergence of network- centric warfare as the ... |
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| Outsourcing Operational Logistics: Buyer Beware |
16 MAY 2003 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Lamont Woody; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| One of the key tasks from U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to his Service Chiefs is to reduce DOD's overall logistic cost and footprint while transforming the warfighter-to-logistics (tooth-to-tail) force structure. As business strategies emerge to support the ever-changing military environment, planners and strategists must reapportion savings from support and infrastructure budgets to warfighting and modernization. Future Service Chiefs will rely more heavily on military contractors to provide ... |
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| "Shock And Awe:" An Operational Art Critique |
16 MAY 2003 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Frank S. Linkous; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The great technological leaps in communications, information technology and precision munitions have spawned a "Revolution in Military Affairs" that seeks to leverage the information age to produce a new paradigm of warfare. One product of this revolution is the concept of "Shock and Awe", which advocates achieving rapid dominance of an adversary by the application of military force of such magnitude, precision and swiftness that it stuns the enemy, breaks ... |
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| Maritime Homeland Security and Defense: Who's in Charge? A Current C2 Perspective |
16 MAY 2003 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas J. TEN Hoopen; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| A significant outcome of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was the major reorganization of the U.S. Government to reprioritize the nation's focus on homeland defense and homeland security, specifically with the creation of the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Although terrorists have the potential for delivering their attacks from three dimensions (air, land, and sea), this paper addresses the maritime domain dimension, ... |
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| Evaluating the Sea Basing Concept: Is This Future Capability a Critical Strength, Weakness, or Vulnerability for the Theater Commander? |
14 MAY 2003 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Cedric E. Pringle; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| For more than two centuries America has relied upon both expeditionary and mainland-based forces to win wars. Large air and land forces have operated in concert with naval striking and expeditionary forces to provide national security from enemies with similar military structures. However, the end of the Cold War produced new threats to national security as new enemies chose not to field large armed forces, like those of the Soviet ... |
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