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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Military Mobilization</title>
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   <title type="html">2.  Traditional Army Medical Wartime Structure</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR773/MR773.chap2.html</id>
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   <title type="html">Army Reserve Units Have High Turnover Prior to Deployment</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG954.html</id>
   <published>Aug 8, 2010</published>
   <updated>Aug 8, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;When U.S. Army Reserve Component units experience a surge of personnel turbulence as they approach deployment, units must repeat some training, making pre-mobilization preparation less efficient and potentially increasing the extent of training that must be accomplished after mobilization.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Reserve Component Unit Instability: How Big is the Problem, What Causes It, and What Can Be Done About It?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9550.html</id>
   <published>Jul 27, 2010</published>
   <updated>Jul 27, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;A study of Army Reserve Component (RC) units finds that personnel instability is widespread, driven mostly by soldier losses and nondeployers, and affects training prior to deployment.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">US Presidential War Powers: Legacy Chains in Military Intervention Decisionmaking</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080909.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2007</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Using the events leading to the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and its subsequent impact on US military interventions as an empirical example, this article elaborates the notion of &apos;legacy chains.&apos;&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Most Military Reservists See Earnings Increase When Called to Active Duty</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2006/09/20.html</id>
   <published>Sep 20, 2006</published>
   <updated>Sep 20, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">Most U.S. military reservists see their earnings increase when they are called to active duty, contrary to the common belief that the earnings of reservists fall when they are activated.</summary>
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   <title type="html">RAND Book Calls All-Volunteer U.S. Military a Success, But Warns Current Wars Pose Challenge to Future Recruiting</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2006/09/14.html</id>
   <published>Sep 14, 2006</published>
   <updated>Sep 14, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">September 14, 2006 News Release: RAND Book Calls All-Volunteer U.S. Military a Success, But Warns Current Wars Pose Challenge to Future Recruiting.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Army Forces for Sustained Operations</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9125.html</id>
   <published>Nov 25, 2005</published>
   <updated>Nov 25, 2005</updated>
   <summary type="html">The nation has difficult trade-offs in facing calls on Army forces for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This report describes the effects of large deployments on the Army&apos;s ability to sustain overseas operations, to provide forces for other contin...</summary>
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   <title type="html">Breaking the Mold: A New Paradigm for the Reserve Components</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP190.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">This Issue Paper argues that these units may not be as ready to deploy as they need to be and offers some observations about why that might be the case.</summary>
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   <title type="html">How Did ODS/S Affect the RC? Evidence from the 1992 Survey</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB7529.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1998</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">Such mobilizations are likely to be more frequent in the future and are likely to have important effects on reservists&apos; attitudes and the degree of support they receive from their families and civilian employees.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Postmobilization Training of National Guard Combat Units</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3011.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1998</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">Analyze the process and the resources -- sites, training and support personnel, and opposing forces -- needed to prepare the seven enhanced heavy National Guard brigades for deployment.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Training for an AC-RC Integrated Division</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3013.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1998</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">Evaluate the postmobilization process for the new integrated division. The goal was to tell the Army what additional time and resources are needed to prepare the integrated division for combat.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Effect of Mobilization on Retention of Enlisted Reservists After Operation Desert Shield/Storm</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR943.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1998</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">Discusses how reserve mobilizations affect the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of reservists, their families, and their employers.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Did Desert Storm Affect Reserve Component Retention?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB7519.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1997</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1997</updated>
   <summary type="html">The ODS/S mobilization had only a minor effect on retention and that the things that influence retention are the same ones that have affected it for decades: paygrade, component, individual satisfaction, and the attitudes of spouses.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Reserve Components: Trends and Proposals</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF134.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1996</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1996</updated>
   <summary type="html">This document provides highlights of a 1997 Department of Defense discussion on the ability of the U.S. armed forces Reserve Components to accommodate a wide range of contingencies, including major combat operations and humanitarian relief.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Army Medical Support for Peace Operations and Humanitarian Assistance</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR773.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1996</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1996</updated>
   <summary type="html">The U.S. military is increasingly being called upon to provide medical support for U.S. forces, coalition forces, and civilian populations in </summary>
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   <title type="html">Postmobilization Training Resource Requirements: Army National Guard Heavy Enhanced Brigades</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR662.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report analyzes the training resources needed for future postmobilization training of combat brigades in the Army National Guard.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Ensuring Personnel Readiness in the Army Reserve Components</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR659.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">This project examined the extent of cross-leveling during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the reasons for it and the likelihood of serious personnel shortfalls in future deployments.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Trends in the Enlisted Reserve</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB7507.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">The call-up of over 240,000 reservists for the Persian Gulf War marked the largest mobilization of the reserves since the Korean War. Although largely successful, the call-up spawned a number of concerns. </summary>
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   <title type="html">Aggregation, Disaggregation, and the 3:1 Rules in Ground Combat</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR638.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1995</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This report illustrates a number of basic principles about aggregation and disaggregation in combat modeling by working through the mathematics and phenomenology of a concrete example. The author also discusses how the 3:1 rule does and does not apply at different levels of combat.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Insuring Mobilized Reservists Against Economic Losses: An Overview</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR446.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1994</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1994</updated>
   <summary type="html">Summarizes results from an ongoing study of the economic losses of reservists upon mobilization and explores one option for addressing this problem, namely, the feasibility of offering insurance protection against such losses. </summary>
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