Posted on Feb 7, 2016
The Future Of The Total Army Requires More Than A Report
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The Future of the Army report offers some valuable recommendations for the force, but is only the beginning of real reform.
The much-anticipated report from the National Commission on the Future of the Army was released on Jan. 28. In 208 pages of findings, the commission proposed 63 recommendations on force structure, organizational alignment, and balancing of the Total Force. It also took on relationships between the Regular Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve, offering roadmaps to a more integrated Army. Below are some of the key highlights of the report.
The much-anticipated report from the National Commission on the Future of the Army was released on Jan. 28. In 208 pages of findings, the commission proposed 63 recommendations on force structure, organizational alignment, and balancing of the Total Force. It also took on relationships between the Regular Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve, offering roadmaps to a more integrated Army. Below are some of the key highlights of the report.
The Future Of The Total Army Requires More Than A Report
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SGT Benjamin Lindsey the big question remains sequestration as depicted by Gen. Odeniro
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL thanks for posting The Future of the Army report. I support the recommendations of the commision but recognize depending on whether we have a conservative or a liberal POTUS these recommendations will fall on receptive ears or relatively deaf ears respectively.
BLUF The commission, after all, was chartered to give recommendations, not mandate policy.
1. End strength: more, not less.
The commission found that a total end strength of 980,000 Army personnel — 450,000 in the Regular Army, 335,000 in the National Guard and 195,000 in the Army Reserve — would be “the absolute minimums to meet America’s national security objectives”. This is a departure from the reduced end strengths that the Army was previously planning for, with a potential cut of the Regular Army down to 420,000.
2. Permanent brigades for Europe and Korea.
Recognizing emerging threats and areas of concern in both Europe and Asia, the commission recommended an armored brigade combat team be permanently stationed in Europe. ...The commission also called for the permanent stationing of a combat aviation brigade in South Korea, and recommended the Army maintain no less than 11 combat aviation brigades.
3. Keep Apaches in the Guard
Of note, the commission recommends reversing the Army’s Aviation Restructuring Initiative, which removes all AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the National Guard. This contentious policy move struck a nerve with National Guardsmen, who perceived the divestiture of Apaches as a step toward relegating the Guard to a strategic reserve that would be placed on the shelf for major contingencies as opposed to predictable and routine use in the Army’s current overseas commitments.
4. Enhanced cross-component integration.
The commission encourages the Army to make further effective use of its Guard and Reserve units, especially in predictable and sustained deployments such as in Kosovo and the Sinai. It also calls for increasing the number of annual rotations for Army National Guard brigade combat teams at combat training centers starting in fiscal year 2017. Such a proposal would increase readiness of National Guard brigade combat teams, thereby allowing the Total Army to draw from an additional pool of units for both predictable and unanticipated deployments.
Additionally, Recommendation 28 requests the secretary of the Army develop selection and promotion policies that would incentivize assignments across all three components.
5. A foundation, but not a solution.
In many respects, the National Commission on the Future of the Army report remains an unfinished work.
BLUF The commission, after all, was chartered to give recommendations, not mandate policy.
1. End strength: more, not less.
The commission found that a total end strength of 980,000 Army personnel — 450,000 in the Regular Army, 335,000 in the National Guard and 195,000 in the Army Reserve — would be “the absolute minimums to meet America’s national security objectives”. This is a departure from the reduced end strengths that the Army was previously planning for, with a potential cut of the Regular Army down to 420,000.
2. Permanent brigades for Europe and Korea.
Recognizing emerging threats and areas of concern in both Europe and Asia, the commission recommended an armored brigade combat team be permanently stationed in Europe. ...The commission also called for the permanent stationing of a combat aviation brigade in South Korea, and recommended the Army maintain no less than 11 combat aviation brigades.
3. Keep Apaches in the Guard
Of note, the commission recommends reversing the Army’s Aviation Restructuring Initiative, which removes all AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the National Guard. This contentious policy move struck a nerve with National Guardsmen, who perceived the divestiture of Apaches as a step toward relegating the Guard to a strategic reserve that would be placed on the shelf for major contingencies as opposed to predictable and routine use in the Army’s current overseas commitments.
4. Enhanced cross-component integration.
The commission encourages the Army to make further effective use of its Guard and Reserve units, especially in predictable and sustained deployments such as in Kosovo and the Sinai. It also calls for increasing the number of annual rotations for Army National Guard brigade combat teams at combat training centers starting in fiscal year 2017. Such a proposal would increase readiness of National Guard brigade combat teams, thereby allowing the Total Army to draw from an additional pool of units for both predictable and unanticipated deployments.
Additionally, Recommendation 28 requests the secretary of the Army develop selection and promotion policies that would incentivize assignments across all three components.
5. A foundation, but not a solution.
In many respects, the National Commission on the Future of the Army report remains an unfinished work.
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Thank You, Sir, for the summary. I hope they do the same report for the navy and the USMC since they are underequipped and underfunded too. Funding should not be a 4 letter word when we burn billions on the F-35 that is a black hole and 7 years behind schedule. We need to add 2 or 3 heavy brigades of armor and warstock to the Baltics and move a bunch of A-10s and put them back in England. We need to do a mini-reforger just like we do Operation Key Resolve and Yama Sakura since the cold war is back!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaiyxtW_-bA
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In 1987 combat cameraman Glenn Sierra documented the last major NATO joint exercise in Europe. Shipping men and equipment around the world was expensive and ...
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back to the futue..2017 will be like 1987 and the Russians are back and we will have to defend Poland and Baltics.
back to the futue..2017 will be like 1987 and the Russians are back and we will have to defend Poland and Baltics.
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