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A 7 page paper that discusses the transformation that US military forces are currently undergoing. This paper focuses, specifically, on how the transformation process is affecting force management. Various aspects of force management are discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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mobilization in war zones," using campaign strategies that took months to plot out (Zinsmeister, 2001, p. 4). Due to this factor, while U.S. forces are undoubtedly powerful, they have in
recent decades been almost unusable. For example, during the conflict in Kosovo, the Pentagon was adamant that it would take at least six months to put an army "on the
ground" in that region (Zinsmeister, 2001). If Saddam Husseins forces had proceeded down the Arabian peninsula during the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, the U.S. had no
force at that time capable of stopping him in a timely manner (Zinsmeister, 2001). Transforming the US military into a force that is flexible and capable of meeting the contingencies
of the twenty-first century global political arena has become a focus of military policy. In April of 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld defined "transformation" as a "process that shapes
the changing nature of military competition and cooperation through new combinations of concepts, capabilities, people and organizations" (Elements, 2005, p. 62). The transformation process is affecting all aspects of the
US military, which includes force management. The following examination of defense transformation will concentrate on how it is affecting force management, in other words, "how we fight" (Elements, 2005, p.
62). While the attack on the US that occurred on September 11, 2001 brought the urgency of the need for military transformation into sharp relief, processes for changing the
nature of the US armed forces were already in place and underway. The Chief of Staff of the Army first outlined the campaign strategy for Army Transformation in November of
1999 (Abrams, 2002). At that time, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) was determined to be the "lead agent" for the operational force transformation effort (Abrams, 2002). The process of transformation
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