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Ready for Armageddon: Proceedings of the 2001 RAND Arroyo-Joint ACTD-CETO-USMC Nonlethal and Urban Operations Program Urban Operations Conference - 2002
R. Glenn, S. Atkinson, M. Barbero, F. Gellert, S. Gerwehr, S. Hartman, J. Medby, A. O'Donnell, D. Owen, S. Pieklik
On March 22-23, 2001, four organizations co-hosted the fourth annual Urban Operations Conference overseen by RAND Arroyo Center. Consistent with the first three Urban Operations conferences, the objective of this cooperative effort was to identify and investigate notably critical topics of concern to those responsible for making decisions on, preparing for, and conducting operations in urban areas anywhere in the world. This document summarizes the results of the two-day conference.
Capital Preservation: Preparing for Urban Operations in the Twenty-First Century - 2001
R. W. Glenn (ed.)
On March 22-23, 2000, the RAND Arroyo Center, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense hosted a conference on urban operations. Its objectives were to explain the significance of urban areas in current and future military operations; consider and discuss methods and means of seizing, stabilizing, or controlling such areas in the 21st century; identify technology requirements across the spectrum of urban operations; and identify C4ISR requirements inherent in military urban operations and ways of meeting these requirements. Along with a detailed introduction by the editor, this document includes transcriptions of each presentation.
Public-Private Partnerships: Proceedings of the U.S.-U.K. Conference on Military Installation Assets, Operations, and Services - 2001
E. Pint, R. Hart
The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.K. Ministry of Defence face a common challenge: modernizing their forces to meet changing military threats under reduced budgets. To meet this challenge, both organizations are increasingly interested in leveraging private-sector capital and expertise to provide defense activities and support services. While both countries have substantially reduced their force structures and defense spending since the end of the Cold War, the United Kingdom has been more vigorous in pursuing such private-sector involvement. As the U.S. Army seeks to improve the performance and reduce the cost of installations and support services, one essential tool will be the greater use of private-sector capabilities and resources. The Assistant Secretary for Installations and Environment, U.S. Army, organized a conference on privatizing military installation assets, operations, and services, bringing together U.S. and U.K. defense officials and business executives to discuss the British experience with privatization and explore its applicability to the U.S. Army. This document summarizes the conference, held at Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, England on April 14-16, 2000. The protential for privatization was explored in three functional areas: housing and other base facilities, base operations and services, and logistics.
The City's Many Faces: Proceedings of the Arroyo Center-Marine Corps Warfighting Lab-J8 Urban Working Group Conference on Urban Operations - 2000
R. W. Glenn (ed.)
The Arroyo Center, in conjunction with the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab and J8 Urban Working Group, provided the urban operations community a broad spectrum of descriptive and analytical presentations in its conference held April 13-14, 1999. The event sought to provide a forum for information exchange and debate on the complete range of possible urban operations likely to challenge U.S. national interests in the next generation. Such activities could include: operations at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war; domestic and international events; combat, stability, and support missions; service, joint, multinational, and interagency operations, in addition to those involving both active and reserve component forces from the U.S. military; and issues concerning homeland defense and weapons of mass destruction.
Denying the Widow-Maker: Summary of Proceedings of the RAND-DBBL Conference on Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain - 1998
R. Glenn, R. Steeb, J. Matsmura, S. Edwards, R. Everson, S. Gerwehr, J. Gordon, with F. Milton, T. Thomas, R. Sullivan, T. Cucolo, G. Schenkel
This document summarizes a February 1998 conference on military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT), co-hosted by the Arroyo Center and the U.S. Army Infantry School Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab. The agenda included presentations on recent historical events (Grozny, Hue), ongoing operations in urban areas (Bosnia), and initiatives under way to improve future force readiness to conduct military operations in cities. Conference participants developed near- and longer-term approaches to attain such improvements. This summary compiles the views presented and the issues debated during the conference. Copies of the slides used by the speakers appear in the appendixes. The conference attendees agreed that continued reliance on World War II-type combat methods for operations in cities was counterproductive. While it was recognized that near-term improvements would be limited to enhancing current procedures via modified doctrine, training, and extant or proven concept technologies, such changes could at best result in marginal upgrades in force readiness. For the longer term, alternatives to large-scale commitments of U.S. manpower into urban areas and subsequent engagement of adversaries at close range was deemed desirable. Early research reflects that such a significant change in methodology may be feasible by the opening years of the next century's third decade.
Future Leader Development of Army Noncommissioned Officers: Workshop Results - 1998
J. D. Winkler, H. J. Shukiar, J. Sollinger, J. A. Dewar, J. Peters, B. Benjamin, M. Lewis, H. Thie
This document reports recent efforts by the RAND Arroyo Center and the U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer Corps to examine ways of strengthening NCO professional development. It presents proceedings and results of two workshops held to assess the current NCO leader development system and develop a "vision" of where the NCO corps wishes to head. In addition, it identifies policy issues that emerged from these workshops. Workshop participants found that the leadership development system was fundamentally sound, with only selected areas requiring improvement: the self-development component of the Noncommissioned Officer Education System (NCOES), the incentives for noncommissioned officer education, and the timing and rigor of the institutional instruction. The vision developed in the second workshop was intended both to address issues in the current system and to provide principles that will enable the Army to adapt to an uncertain future. The document also identifies some research implications of the workshops. Two areas needing additional analysis are the self-development component of the NCOES and the alignment between enlisted personnel management policy and professional development.
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