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force planning

Planning associated with the creation and maintenance of military capabilities. It is primarily the responsibility of the Military Departments and Services and is conducted under the administrative control that runs from the Secretary of Defense to the Military Departments and Services.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Allocation to the navy has been reduced from 18 percent of the Defence Budget in 2012-13 to 13 percent now, which is impacting future force planning and capability development, Singh added.
Sean Sullivan is an associate professor at the Naval War College and a subject-matter expert in force planning and defense resource allocation.
Military force planning has been described as an art more practiced than studied, and America's inchoate efforts to downsize its armed forces over the last decade in what has been termed an age of austerity lend credence to that aphorism.
There is in force planning permission to use the premises as premises of the kind specified in this notice for the period during which the licence would be in force and a copy of the planning permission is attached to this notice.
"Agents love our at-home agent program because they can focus on the needs of the customer without the distractions found in a busy contact center," says Seth Ettwein, manager call center work force planning at Alaska Airlines.
The work is divided into sections covering challenges of force planning facing future surprises, flexibility-based recovery and historical examples and lesson of recovering from surprise.
The use of Integrated Security Constructs--overlapping, detailed sets of planning scenarios and associated assessment tools--in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) provides the United States with a clean break from Cold War-era force planning.
Force planning deals specifically with providing NATO with the forces and capabilities from members it needs to execute its full range of missions, in accordance with the Alliance's Strategic Concept.
He will be responsible for the development and delivery of NATO's defence policy and of planning mechanisms to support national and collective defence and force planning.
"We also need to rethink the way we consider energy in our force planning," doctrine and acquisition, says Fritz.
Deadly Force Planning Authority - 3 p.m., Bob Straub Conference Room, Public Service Building, 125 E.