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The successful deployment of a military force involves the movement of troops and materiel in response to a regional threat and the ability to sustain this force until the military objective is achieved. RAND has extensive experience evaluating and providing supportable recommendations to military decisionmakers to ensure rapid and sustainable deployments to counter regional threats.

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Iraqi Army Will to Fight
In summer 2014, the Iraqi Army imploded, breaking and scattering in the face of attacks from Islamic State fighters. How can U.S. advisors help strengthen Iraqi Army will to fight and overall combat effectiveness?
Jan 11, 2022
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What Would a Strategy of Restraint Mean for U.S. Security Policy?
If the United States adopted a grand strategy of restraint in the Asia-Pacific, how would its posture in the region change and how would it determine when to use force? What warfighting scenarios involving the defense of Japan could guide defense planning?
Mar 31, 2022

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The Effect of Mobilization on Retention of Enlisted Reservists After Operation Desert Shield/Storm
Discusses how reserve mobilizations affect the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of reservists, their families, and their employers.
Jan 1, 1998
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The Reserve Components: Trends and Proposals
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.
Jan 1, 1997
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Ensuring Personnel Readiness in the Army Reserve Components
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.
Jan 1, 1996
Research Brief
Trends in the Enlisted Reserve
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.
Jan 1, 1996
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Army Medical Support for Peace Operations and Humanitarian Assistance
The U.S. military is increasingly being called upon to provide medical support for U.S. forces, coalition forces, and civilian populations in
Jan 1, 1996
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Postmobilization Training Resource Requirements: Army National Guard Heavy Enhanced Brigades
This report analyzes the training resources needed for future postmobilization training of combat brigades in the Army National Guard.
Jan 1, 1996
Research Brief
Turning Light Forces into Heavy Hitters: New Technologies for U.S. Rapid Reaction Missions
Suggests that emerging technologies will eliminate or substantially reduce a major drawback of this developing role for light forces: their vulnerability to attacks from heavily armored enemies.
Jan 1, 1996
Research Brief
An Air Force for Crises and Lesser Conflicts
Researchers sought to identify directions the Air Force might take in responding to growing CALC demands.
Jan 1, 1995
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Organizing, Training, and Equipping the Air Force for Crises and Lesser Conflicts
Explores where, why, and how operations short of war are stressing the forces, particularly the aerospace forces, and how those stresses upon USAF capabilities might be relieved by changes in Air Force organization, training, and equipment.
Jan 1, 1995
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Insuring Mobilized Reservists Against Economic Losses: An Overview
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.
Jan 1, 1995
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Aggregation, Disaggregation, and the 3:1 Rules in Ground Combat
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.
Jan 1, 1995
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Training Readiness in the Army Reserve Components
This report documents research on the training readiness of high-priority Army Reserve Component units participating in 1992 in the Army's training enhancement program, known as BOLD SHIFT.
Jan 1, 1994
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Planning Reserve Mobilization: Inferences from Operation Desert Shield
This report identifies problems and issues raised by Operation Desert Shield (ODS) that could affect the Army's use of reserves in future contingencies and summarizes issues that deserve further analysis.
Jan 1, 1993
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Mobilization and Train-up Times for Army Reserve Component Support Units
This report documents research into the time it takes Reserve Component (RC) support units (such as transportation, engineers, military police, or artillery) to mobilize and prepare for deployment.
Jan 1, 1992
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Post-Mobilization and Training of Army Reserve Component Combat Units
This report investigates how long it takes Reserve Component (RC) combat units to mobilize and prepare for deployment.
Jan 1, 1992
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Assessing the Structure and Mix of Future Active and Reserve Forces: Assessment of Policies and Practices for Implementing the Total Force Policy
This report examines the Department of Defense (DoD) Base Force decision process.
Jan 1, 1992
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What if the Russians Aren't Coming and the Americans Aren't Staying?
Considers the implications of two potential changes in international relations: the likelihood of a Soviet attack on Western Europe will have fallen so low that it no longer need be taken as a serious basis for Western policy, and the U.S. will have withdrawn all of its military forces from Europe.
Jan 1, 1991
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Models of the Military Sector in the Soviet Economy
Examines econometric-trend and optimal-control models against the background of an aggregate model and the foreground of priority models. The author attempts to clarify the role of these models in analyzing the defense sector and the Soviet economy.
Jan 1, 1991
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Possible Postwar Force Requirements for the Persian Gulf: How Little Is Enough?
Describes a methodology for estimating the force levels that would be needed to defend Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf crisis, and it describes the results of a preliminary analysis performed using the methodology.
Jan 1, 1991
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U.S. Grand Strategy for the 1990s and Beyond
Shows how the changed global environment could permit the evolution of different kinds of U.S. forces to support four alternative future U.S. strategies suitable for different situations: ...
Jan 1, 1990

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Military Force Deployment

Topic Synonyms:
Deployment Process

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M. Scott Bond

Senior Technical Analyst

Michael Bond is a technical analyst working at the intersection of military technology, modeling and simulation, wargaming, and East-Asia. His research interests include force modernization, naval warfare, PLA modernization, wargaming, and modeling and simulation. Bond also serves as the MORS…
Paul W. Mayberry

Senior Policy Researcher

Paul Mayberry is a senior policy researcher based in Washington, DC. His research interests are in the areas of readiness assessment, force structure and its deployment, national military strategy, total force manpower, and military training and education. Before RAND, Mayberry was a Vice…

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