Balancing Agile Combat Support Manpower to Better Meet the Future Security Environment

• Main Author: Mills, Patrick (auth)
• Other Authors: Drew, John G. (auth), Ausink, John A. (auth), Romano, Daniel M. (auth), Costello, Rachel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2014
• Subjects: Defence strategy, planning & research; Air forces & warfare; Military engineering; History; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This report proposes new metrics to measure expeditionary agile combat support (ACS) capacity and uses these metrics to assess the capacity of the current ACS manpower mix to support expeditionary operations, finding that there are imbalances among its career fields relative to expeditionary demands...