Realizing the Vision
The Soldier/Squad System
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2014
40 pages
978-1-4422-2844-3 (ISBN)
Description
The U.S. Army is facing a time of great change. The security environment is becoming increasingly complex and uncertain, with defense challenges multiplying. At the same time, the Army is adjusting to rapidly diminishing operational demands, falling endstrength, reorganization, and tightening budgets. Given these new realities, the CSIS Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies examined the current state of the soldier/squad system and how it might be best advanced in the face of constrained budgets. The effort was conducted under the rubric of the Ground Forces Dialogue, a Brown Chair effort aimed at facilitating a broad, sustained, web-based conversation about the future of U.S. ground forces.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-2844-3 (9781442228443)
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04/2014
Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S.
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Persons
Maren Leed is a senior adviser with the Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies at CSIS. Ariel Robinson is a research assistant with the Brown Chair at CSIS.
Content
- Realizing the Vision
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- 1. The Soldier/Squad as a System
- Background
- The Soldier/Squad Portfolio
- Portfolio Attributes
- Requirements: Where It All Begins
- 2. Integration: The Key to a Systems Approach
- Achieving Unity of Effort
- Conceptual and Practical Challenges
- A System for What?
- 3. Meeting Future Needs
- 4. Summary and Recommendations
- Item-based, Highly Specific Requirements
- Governance Challenges
- Shared Scope and Vision
- Continued Innovation
- Appendix A: Soldier Load and Cost Baselines
- Appendix B: Study Participants
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
